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AI · October 24, 2026

kosa8

Secure sandboxes with an undo button for AI agents.

kosa8 launched on October 24, 2026 with 18 votes, #604 of 3,675 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Kosa8 lets you run AI agents inside secure, isolated virtual machines without risking your own computer. Give Claude Code, Codex, or other agents their own sandbox, restrict what they can access, and checkpoint the entire running environment before risky changes. If something breaks, rewind in about a second — even running processes are restored. You can also fork environments to test multiple approaches in parallel, run local AI models, and manage everything from one dashboard.

Every AI agent gets its own sealed machine. Save it, copy it, and rewind it in about a second. Closed, allow-listed network, human approvals, a tamper-evident audit trail, and local models.

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