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by denn-gubsky 39 days ago
Interesting library. I think I could use for agents running in virtual volumes. I maintain an agentic runtime written on Go. What is the best way to incorporate bashkit.sh?
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Yeh, bashkit was in general developed mostly for agentic runtimes. So it might be a good fit, especially if there is a need to run agent in some isolation.

Regarding incorporating in Go, it is actually long due to make sure that bashkit have stable ABI, I think I need to look at it next week, that would allow having support for Go, C++ and Zig.

I however would rather recomend starting from https://github.com/ewhauser/gbash , this library is philosophically very similar, and it is native Go.

I integrated the gbash and benchmarked it. gbash is not production grade yet. There are issues with tools implementation and compatibility (I added findings as issues) and performance issues (avg ~30% slower than system C utilities, grep is way slower). Here is full report: https://loomcycle.dev/blog/bashbox-in-process-shell-sandbox
Thank you for good advise. The agentic runtime I'm developing uses system Bash and has to spawn system processes. The pure Go is better match. Checking the repo.