Run AI agents isolated inside an macOS virtual machine. Configured to run Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor Agent, Google Gemini.

ClodPod - Run AI agents in a macOS VM sandbox

Key features

• Builds a virtual machine and launches AI agents with access to your projects
• Enables mapping multiple projects in the same virtual machine simultaneously
• Open multiple AI agents sessions and shell prompts, or use the GUI
• Headless mode for CI/CD workflows with --no-graphics
• Includes Xcode and common development tools; you can add your own tools too
• Fast rebuild and relaunch using a three-layer APFS CoW caching system
• Named VM instances for switching between projects or worktree branches
• Parallel VM execution with configurable memory budget

Usage:

# Clone clodpod
git clone https://github.com/webcoyote/clodpod ~/projects/clodpod

# Create an alias for clod or add it to your path
alias clod="$HOME/projects/clodpod/clod"
# - or -
alias clod="$HOME/projects/clodpod/clod --no-graphics"
# - or -
PATH="$PATH:"$HOME/projects/clodpod"

# Note: for the first run you'll want to start in the project directory,
# which will get remembered. Use add/remove for changing projects.
cd "YOUR PROJECT DIRECTORY"

# Run Claude Code
clod cursor
# also clod cl"

# Run OpenAI Codex
clod codex
# also "clod co"

# Run Google Cursor
clod gem