Vibe Box · isolated browser & shell
Open suspicious links and code inside a throwaway VM.
A clean Linux micro-VM, one click away from Vibe Sentinel. Anything that happens inside stays inside.
Requirements
- • Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer)
- • macOS 14.6 or later
- • ~3 GB of free disk for the base image
- • 2 GB of free RAM per active session
How it works
Boot a clean VM in seconds
A small Debian ARM64 image with Firefox ESR preinstalled. Each session runs on an ephemeral copy of the disk; everything is wiped when you close the window.
Send text in, never out
A read-only virtio-fs channel pushes text from your Mac clipboard into the VM clipboard after a confirmation modal. There is no reverse channel. Whatever happens in the VM cannot reach macOS.
Locked-down network
NAT only. An nftables firewall blocks the VM from reaching any RFC1918 host on your real LAN; only DNS to the Apple Virtualization gateway and the public internet are allowed.
Screenshot the guest
A button on the header captures just the Linux framebuffer (no host chrome) and either copies it to your Mac clipboard or saves a PNG.
Add-ons for power users
Bring tools like Git into the VM via portable tarballs. They mount read-only and land on PATH for new terminals inside the guest.
Where Vibe Box makes a difference
- ✓ Drive-by JavaScript / browser exploits on a phishing link
- ✓ Malicious downloads from a suspicious job offer
- ✓ PDFs or pages that try to fingerprint your Mac
- ✓ Profile tracking, every session boots a fresh browser with no cookies, history, or extensions carried over
- ✓ Untrusted code you want to run without touching ~/Documents or keychain
What it does not protect against
- · A preexisting keylogger or compromise on your Mac
- · Phishing where you knowingly type real credentials into the VM
- · Targeted attacks that exploit a VM escape (rare; defense-in-depth, not absolute)
Missing an add-on?
Tell us which tool you want preinstalled inside the VM, language runtime, CLI, browser, anything portable. We review every request. Use the message field to describe the tool and your use case.
Request an add-on →Get Vibe Box
Vibe Box ships inside Vibe Sentinel. Open the app, hit Vibe Box from the menu, install the base image. Beta access during early rollout.
Download Vibe SentinelApple Silicon only.