Discussion

ADD / XOR / ROL

thwarted: Generally a good idea, but I'm not sure why you should even want to fork a git repo when a local clone should be sufficient. But this is probably a terminology mixup from the way github presents forks and clones.

dddddaviddddd: I believe the author's idea is to do dev work from a Github account that only has access to the fork, but not to the main repo. Then, as a contributor, you'd open PRs from your fork to the main repo. I think this would only work if your Github account doesn't have write access to the main repo, though. I know you can use 'deployment keys' to give read-access to a single repo using an SSH key, but not sure if you can otherwise restrict access to a single repo with write access. Essentially, though, you'd want to find a way to give the remote host the most limited possible privileges to your Github account.

ozozozd: They mention that as a mechanism for protecting the SSH keys for the repo.Essentially using a repo that doesn’t matter with the coding agent and then creating a cross-repo PR to the real repo.

throwaway173738: You could also just set the development machine up as a remote on the repo on your local host and then pull, diff, and merge locally. Then the llm agent doesn’t have access to any github account at all.

kstenerud: This is what yoloAI does. Automatically. # Create a new sandbox copying . as workdir (default container, but you can choose vm) yoloai new mybugfix . --isolation vm # attach to it (it has tmux already) yoloai attach mybugfix # Chat with the bot inside... # Happy with its work? Diff it to be sure yoloai diff mybugfix # Happy with the changes? Apply them to your workdir yoloai apply mybugfix # All done? Destroy the sandbox yoloai destroy mybugfix The agent stays isolated at all times. No access to your secrets (except what you want), no access to your workdir until you apply. You can also easily restrict network access.https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai

dfedbeef: the old hacker trick of using ssh

trinsic2: IM new to Claude code but doesnt auth require a gui browser to authenticate the Claude session first time login?? Do you have to setup a desktop environment just for that?

nwatson: If the Claude (or similar) can't open a browser on a headless server, they typically print a URL you can copy to your browser on your local system-with-GUI. From there you authenticate and get back some kind of token, which you copy and paste back into your remote SSH session.