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Default Policy Reference

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The default policy is the policy applied when you create an OpenShell sandbox without --policy. It is baked into the community base image (ghcr.io/nvidia/openshell-community/sandboxes/base) and defined in the community repo’s dev-sandbox-policy.yaml.

Agent Compatibility

The following table shows the coverage of the default policy for common agents.

AgentCoverageAction Required
Claude CodeFullNone. Works out of the box.
OpenCodePartialAdd opencode.ai endpoint and OpenCode binary paths.
CodexNoneProvide a complete custom policy with OpenAI endpoints and Codex binary paths.

If you run a non-Claude agent without a custom policy, the agent’s API calls are denied by the proxy. You must provide a policy that declares the agent’s endpoints and binaries.

Default Policy Blocks

The default policy blocks are defined in the community base image. Refer to the openshell-community repository for the full dev-sandbox-policy.yaml source.

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