Linux Sandbox

About Linux Sandbox

Information

Developer

SiliconDevKit (generated by AI from a prompt)

Category

System

Compatibility

macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon, OrbStack. Apple silicon Macs only (M1 or later), not Intel

Size

1.1 MB (.dmg)

Latest version

1.0

Price

Free

Signing

Ad-hoc signed, not notarized

The prompt behind it

This app was generated from the prompt below. Paste it into SiliconDevKit to build your own version, then change it however you like.

Build a native Mac app called Linux Sandbox: a one-window control panel that uses OrbStack's command line (orb and docker) to give the user a disposable Linux machine for running scripts and commands safely. No Linux desktop, no Terminal. RESEARCH FIRST (use WebSearch and WebFetch before you write code) Read https://docs.orbstack.dev (the pages on the command line, "orb" machines, headless use and installing) and https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/orbstack. Check the exact subcommands and flags you use: start, stop, status, list (and any JSON output option), create, delete, run or -m, push and pull, and how Mac folders appear inside a machine. Where a page disagrees with this prompt, follow the page and say what changed. SETUP (honest and one click) - Find orb and docker in /opt/homebrew/bin, /usr/local/bin and /Applications/OrbStack.app/Contents/MacOS/xbin. Run them with Process and an argument array, never a shell string, with a PATH that includes those folders. Give every quick call a 10 second timeout. - OrbStack needs macOS 14 or later: if the Mac is older, say so plainly. - If orb is missing: an "Install OrbStack" button that runs brew install --cask orbstack, streaming the output into a log with a progress bar and Cancel. No Homebrew: the button becomes "Get OrbStack" and opens https://orbstack.dev. Never install Homebrew. After installing, run orb start and wait up to 90 seconds until orb status says it is running. Mention that OrbStack may ask to be opened once to finish its setup, and that it is free for personal use. - A status dot (not installed, stopped, starting, running) and Start and Stop buttons. THE SANDBOX - "New sandbox": pick Ubuntu (the default), Debian or Alpine, give it a name, create it with orb create, and show progress. Keep the list of machines (from orb list) with state, distro and Start, Stop, Delete (with confirmation). Say that machines are real Linux on this Mac and are removed only when the user deletes them. - Run box: a monospaced text area for a command or a whole script, a machine picker and a Run button. Run it inside the machine with orb -m <name>, stream stdout and stderr live into an output pane (colors for stderr, a different color for the exit status), with Stop (terminate the process), Copy output and a Clear button. Run scripts by sending them through stdin to bash -s, not by building quoted shell strings. Show how long it took. - History: the last 50 runs (command, machine, exit code, time) saved as JSON in Application Support, click to load one back, Delete and Clear. - "Disposable mode" switch: before a run, make a fresh machine, run in it, and delete it afterwards, so nothing persists. Confirm the first time. - Share a folder: a button to choose a Mac folder and run a command with that folder as the working directory inside the machine (check how OrbStack exposes Mac paths), with a warning that a script can change files in a shared folder. - Packages shortcut: a field to install packages in the machine (apt, apk by distro) with the output streamed. - Containers tab: docker ps -a as a list with Start, Stop, Remove and Logs, and a "Run a container" form for an image name, ports and a name (docker run -d). Say when the docker command is missing. QUALITY - macOS 14, Swift 5 language mode, SwiftUI with ObservableObject and @Published. Only Apple frameworks, no packages, no Xcode project or asset catalog. Modular: OrbCLI (finds and runs the tools, parses output), MachineStore, RunController (streaming, stop), HistoryStore, and the views. - Read process output with pipe readability handlers and never block the main thread. Handle a process that never ends with Stop and a long default timeout of 10 minutes for runs, which the user can turn off. - The code is compiled later on the user's Mac, not here, so check every initializer, argument label and optional. No force-unwraps. - Do not fake anything: no sample machines, no pretend output. If something cannot work, show that state in the app. - In your reply, say in a few sentences what you built, what the lookups changed, and what you could not test (the orb commands and the folder sharing were not run).

What it cost

Every AI run that made this demo, one per line. Model: Claude Sonnet 5.5. Tokens are shown as (in / out). “In” counts everything the model read, including text it had already seen in the session at a reduced price.

Credits are what a build uses on your plan. This counts AI usage only: hosting and the Mac that compiled it are not included.

Version tree

Every change to this app is a new version. Use any build as a template to start your own copy from it; forks that their makers shared appear as branches.