I do agree that linux needs a notion of an "app" (isolated, with access only to its config and files you give it, and a small, well-designed set of APIs for interacting with the system). For coding agents, I think a better answer are development containers, because that would be needed to prevent npm/cargo/python build scripts from causing harm anyway.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Does AppArmor kind of do that? I recall recently struggling like fuck to give a torrent daemon app access to some script file I wanted it to run.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not suggesting containers but rather running binaries natively, just as separate users. No cgroups or overhead. Just normal binary access, just you won't have access to all files (and since everything is a file, "all files" includes hardware as well)