# strands-agents/box

> An open-source sandbox for AI agents that combines OS isolation with default-deny Dogwood policies, restricting what agents can execute, read, write, and reach on the network. Written in Rust, currently for macOS on Apple silicon.

- Magnitude: 6.1 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 83 total · +11 stars measured 2026-10-08, 00:02–01:27 UTC, ≈ 95 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-02 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/strands-agents/box · Homepage: https://strandsagents.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/strands-agents/box

## Useful for

- Run a coding agent so it cannot read files or reach hosts outside its policy
- Inject API credentials into permitted HTTP requests without exposing secrets to the agent
- Deny a network request based on an earlier file read recorded in the shared event history

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 00:02–01:27: 72 → 83 stars (+11). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +95 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 83 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #168.
- Hacker News: “Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model” — 274 points, 23 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4
- Issues and pull requests: 20
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 26 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 8
- Latest release: v0.1.0 (2026-10-07)

## Stars per day, last 12 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-08: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 85, 11

## Hacker News

- Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model — 274 points, 78 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49987076
- Strands Decider Decision Model — 6 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925676

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #168

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-08 01:38 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.