ctx.sandbox (dsh-sandbox): confine(argv, policy) returns the argv to spawn instead — wrapped so the process and its children run confined — plus the enforcement completeness and the backend denial/runner-failure dialects; no usable backend throws the fail-closed SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE. Policy rides per call. dsh-sandbox-local selects by platform and caches the verdict: multi-candidate chains probe FUNCTIONALLY in preference order (Linux: bwrap → the registry-installed node-addon-landlock-run launcher), a sole candidate is selected unprobed (darwin: sandbox-exec/Seatbelt) and fails closed at execution via runnerFailureSignatures; win32 is a reserved empty chain. Profile parity is honest per backend (documented temp-area and ABI differences; enforcement full|partial is a structured result fact). CI: the sandbox-e2e matrix proves real-kernel confinement per rung (bwrap, Landlock per architecture through the registry-installed launcher, Seatbelt), failing on a silent all-skip; the packed-install rehearsal installs the launcher family from the registry and asserts the binary executable apart from kernel enforcement.
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sandbox/ — process-sandbox capability family
The confinement half of the capability-seam split: an abstract provider interface and platform backends. Consumers hand ctx.sandbox the exact argv they are about to spawn and spawn the returned (wrapped) argv instead; policy (SandboxPolicy: mode + workspace root) rides each call, so different consumers confine under different policies at the same instant. All product packages.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
sandbox/ |
Abstract process-sandbox seam (the SandboxProvider contract + the mode/enforcement/policy vocabulary) |
ctx.sandbox |
sandbox-local/ |
Local backends by platform chain: Linux bwrap else the landlock-run launcher (the npm-distributed node-addon-landlock-run family, built and released from its own repository), darwin sandbox-exec/Seatbelt — multi-candidate chains functionally probed, sole candidates selected directly, verdict cached, fail-closed |
(registers ctx.sandbox) |
The seam confines SAME-WORLD subprocesses only (shared filesystem and kernel). Containers, microVMs, and remote executors are NOT backends here — they replace whole capability implementations (ctx.bash, ctx.fs) as environment-coherent groups; the boundary is recorded in the sandbox RFC.
The staged first consumer is the sandboxed bash executor (it hands over the exact ['bash', '-c', command] argv it is about to spawn). In-process tools (fs/web) cannot be confined by an OS wrapper — their sandbox semantics are policy at their own seams (the sandbox RFC's cross-family phase).