{"id":224096,"date":"2026-03-13T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw-latches-onto-docker-sandboxes-for-safer-ai-agents-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:05:09","slug":"nanoclaw-latches-onto-docker-sandboxes-for-safer-ai-agents-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw-latches-onto-docker-sandboxes-for-safer-ai-agents-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw_latches_onto_docker_sandboxes\/\">NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw_latches_onto_docker_sandboxes\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw_latches_onto_docker_sandboxes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 07:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"label\">exclusive<\/span> NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project&#8217;s commitment to security.<\/p>\n<p>NanoClaw, as we noted recently, followed from an effort to address the security holes opened by OpenClaw, which attracted widespread attention earlier this year as a way to empower AI models to roam about the web and operate applications on users\u2019 behalf and without many constraints.<\/p>\n<p>NanoClaw already runs inside of containers, which makes it safer than running agent software on a local machine. Through a partnership with Docker, users can now install NanoClaw into a Docker Sandbox, a kind of micro VM that is more secure than a container because it&#8217;s isolated from the host system. A container is an isolated process on a shared kernel; micro VMs have their own kernel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Docker Sandboxes, that boundary is now two layers deep,&#8221; explained Gavriel Cohen, co-founder of NanoClaw, in a blog post provided to The Register ahead of publication. &#8220;Each agent runs in its own container (can&#8217;t see other agents&#8217; data), and all containers run inside a micro VM (can&#8217;t touch your host machine). If a hallucination or a misbehaving agent can cause a security issue, the security model is broken. Security has to be enforced outside the agentic surface, not depend on the agent behaving correctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">Lazer and Gavriel Cohen, founders of NanoClaw &#8211; Click to enlarge<\/p>\n<p>Docker Sandboxes are supported on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows (x86), with Linux support due in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Cavage, COO of Docker, told The Register in an interview, &#8220;Docker Sandboxes are a new primitive that has the ergonomics of Docker and what I describe as the ethos of Docker. But it&#8217;s fundamentally a different primitive. It&#8217;s actually a micro VM and it actually has true isolation with its own dedicated kernel and its own dedicated hardware space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw_latches_onto_docker_sandboxes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/13\/nanoclaw_latches_onto_docker_sandboxes\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/13\/lobster-in-cage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-224096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224098,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224096\/revisions\/224098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}