# docker-sandboxes-kits

Teaches your coding agent to author, validate, pack, and sign Docker Sandboxes spec.yaml kits under the v2 schema. Useful when creating agents or mixins.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 723 installs · ★ 599
- Author: docker
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/docker/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

This skill guides agents through writing and debugging `spec.yaml` files under the kit-spec v2 schema (`schemaVersion: "2"`). It distinguishes between `kind: sandbox` for full base agents and `kind: mixin` for modular add-ons. It covers egress rules in `permissions.network`, environment keys, volumes, and standard `sbx kit` commands like `validate`, `pack`, `push`, and `verify`.

Spec validation is strict. Any unrecognised field triggers an immediate failure. Mixins cannot declare OAuth credentials or duplicate base agent keys. Port ranges are unsupported by the matcher, which means each port must be specified individually. While `sandbox.build` is accepted by the parser, the current runtime does not build it, so an explicit `image:` remains mandatory.

Using this skill requires standalone `sbx` with kit support. The legacy docker sandbox wrapper lacks these capabilities and will fail.

## Requirements
- Works with: Docker

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add docker/skills --skill docker-sandboxes-kits -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add docker/skills --skill docker-sandboxes-kits -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add docker/skills --skill docker-sandboxes-kits -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install docker/skills docker-sandboxes-kits
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add docker/skills --skill docker-sandboxes-kits -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/docker/skills --path skills/docker-sandboxes-kits
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add docker/skills --skill docker-sandboxes-kits -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/docker/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/docker-sandboxes-kits/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- author spec.yaml definitions for custom agents or mixin kits
- configure granular domain and IP egress under permissions.network
- catch typos and unsupported fields with sbx kit validate
- pack, sign, and verify kit artifacts for OCI distribution

## Example prompts
- Generate a spec.yaml for a mixin that needs access to registry.npmjs.org.
- Validate this kit-spec v2 manifest and check for disallowed mixin fields.
- Explain how to pack and sign my sandbox kit using sbx.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: docker-sandboxes-kits
description: >-
  Use this skill when authoring, validating, packaging, signing, or composing a Docker Sandboxes kit `spec.yaml` (`sbx kit add/inspect/pack/pull/push/sign/validate/verify`), even if the user just says they want to "add a tool to a sandbox agent", "build a reusable sandbox extension", "publish a kit to a registry", or "give a mixin its own credentials and network access". Covers the kit-spec v2 grammar (`kind: sandbox` vs `kind: mixin`, the `sandbox:` block, `permissions.network`, `ports`, `credentials` apiKey/oauth, `environment`, `setup` install/startup/files, `volumes`, `args`, `extends`, `mixins`, `requires.agent`), composition via `--kit`/`sbx kit add`, and distribution (pack/push/pull/sign/verify/provenance).
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Requires standalone sbx with sbx kit support and kit-spec schemaVersion "2", not the legacy docker sandbox wrapper. Verified against docker/sandboxes df5c96ba60484fa2c375469dbac912c205da6c37; installed-help version and provenance are in references/sources.md. docker_help does not cover standalone sbx.
---

# Docker Sandboxes: Kits (spec.yaml)

## Overview

A **kit** is a directory (or ZIP/OCI/git artifact) containing a `spec.yaml`
plus an optional `files/` tree. `sbx` composes a kit into a running or
about-to-be-created sandbox at `sbx create`/`sbx run --kit`/`sbx env` time or
at `sbx kit add` time. This skill owns kit-spec v2 authoring, validation, and
distribution — everything under `spec.yaml`'s own grammar — and defers what a
kit's declarations *mean at runtime* (credential injection, network
enforcement) to `docker-sandboxes-network-credentials`, and the sandboxes a
kit is composed into to `docker-sandboxes-lifecycle`.

## When to use this skill

Activate this skill when:
- The user wants to write, validate, or pack a `spec.yaml` for a `kind:
  sandbox` (complete agent) or `kind: mixin` (extension) kit.
- The user wants a mixin to add a tool, credential, network allowance, or
  files to an existing built-in agent.
- The user wants to publish a kit to (or pull one from) an OCI registry,
  sign it, or verify a signature/provenance attestation.
- The user is debugging a kit-validation error, an argument-substitution
  error, or `sbx kit add`'s recreate-aware requirement.

## Do not use this skill when

Do not use this skill when:
- The task is creating/running/removing the sandbox a kit is composed into,
  independent of the kit's own content — use `docker-sandboxes-lifecycle`.
- The task is what a credential or network rule a kit declares actually
  does at runtime (proxy injection, allow/deny precedence, or what the
  CURRENT network/global policy already permits), or is about secrets/
```
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