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A single honest page on panopticon's security posture: container isolation and the --dangerously-skip-permissions rationale, the docker_in_docker=host-root escalation, the 0.0.0.0 default bind, the unauthenticated-control-plane trust gap (BACKLOG P1), secret handling, and the determinism/data-flow boundary. Linked from README and the overview's "Where to go next". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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docs/security.md, a single honest page on panopticon's security posture, and links it from the README and the overview's "Where to go next".The trust story was scattered (the
docker_in_dockerwarnings inrepos.md/layers.md) and some real limits weren't written down anywhere. This page states the model plainly, including where it stops.Contents
--dangerously-skip-permissionsrationale (the container is the sandbox); nothing reachesmainwithout the operator's review gate.docker_in_dockerβ--privilegedβ host root; off by default; trusted repos only.host.docker.internal; the task service defaults to0.0.0.0:8000(all interfaces), so the bind address is a security control.task_idis trusted over REST/MCP, so one container can mutate another task. Fine for a single trusted operator; a real concern before multi-user or shared-network runners. Tracked as the P1 cleanup indesign/BACKLOG.md.0600env-file injected via--env-file; long-lived non-rotatingsetup-token; manual rotation.Every claim was verified against the code before writing; the doc cites the relevant source files. Full plan: the task's
plan.mdartifact.