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"* Full computer access: It's not sandboxed in a browser. Meka operates with OS-level controls, allowing it to handle system dialogues, file uploads, and other
by anonymousiam 1y ago
"* Full computer access: It's not sandboxed in a browser. Meka operates with OS-level controls, allowing it to handle system dialogues, file uploads, and other interactions that browser-only automation tools can't."
This seems pretty scary. Just recently an AI wiped a company database:
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-database-called-it-a-catastrophic-failure/ https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-d...
- xnx 1y agoPower and risk go hand in hand. Best approach is probably to run in a VM.
- ElasticBottle 1y agoYeap, that's exactly where the agents run in
- tcwd 1y agoHi there, I'm Edward, one of the co-founders. The OS that the agent operates in is a fresh confined environment, and not a company or personal computer.
- dotancohen 1y agoSo how can it do anything useful without access to actual data? Can it be installed on a conventional (personal or work) desktop?
- wsycharles0o 1y agoI would assume this capability is meant to be used in a docker?
- tcwd 1y agoWe explored using a containerized VM that exposed agentic controls in the open source version, but generally found that the cloud-based solutions were much faster to get started and easier to work with. Our repo contains adapters that work with several of the most popular cloud-hosted VM-as-a-service infra providers. Definitely would be happy to be wrong and missed something here!