Show HN: Boxofrocks – Sandboxed Agentic-AI Friendly Simple GH Issues Extension

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4 months ago

I've been running parallel docker sandbox dev agents and the task management was getting out of control. Tried beads for a couple of days. Interface across default sandbox is a pain, kept running into issues with daemons (bd doctor being sued for malpractice), config drift, jsonl/db sync, etc. It just had the wrong architectural direction for simplicity in my specific case. I just wanted a simple way to install, deploy and manage multiple dev agents' work.

So I built boxofrocks (dumb as a). One daemon per machine. One arbiter (GH action) per repo resolving conflicts. CLI, REST, unix socket, json and options for local agent comms. Works out of the box with local auth with GH. All issues just live in issues, uses labels to find approved, embeds human friendly text, and html comment including json version for your AI buddy. Safety feature for public repos, daemon drops issues/comments by non-approved users to avoid prompt injection attempts. Included local web UI to visualize all your repos while your agents work. Offline machine-sync tolerant (1 drift instead of dozens). Go/sqllite, uses GH APIs to sync Issues.

Maybe this helps someone else.

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