feat(core): handle agentic sandboxing (#34402)

Coly010 · web-flow · commit 6bf8c4693f68 · 2026-02-11T15:12:49.000Z
## Current Behavior
Running ai agents in sandbox mode causes issues with Nx's daemon and
plugin isolation

## Expected Behavior
Running ai agents in sandbox mode should work

## Related Issue(s)

CLOSES NXA-828
diff --git a/packages/nx/bin/nx.ts b/packages/nx/bin/nx.ts
@@ -21,8 +21,23 @@ import { performance } from 'perf_hooks';
 import { setupWorkspaceContext } from '../src/utils/workspace-context';
 import { daemonClient } from '../src/daemon/client/client';
 import { removeDbConnections } from '../src/utils/db-connection';
+import { isAiAgent } from '../src/native';
+
+function handleAgenticSandbox() {
+  const sandboxEnvVars = [
+    'SANDBOX_RUNTIME',
+    'CODEX_SANDBOX',
+    'GEMINI_SANDBOX',
+    'CURSOR_SANDBOX',
+  ];
+  if (isAiAgent() && sandboxEnvVars.some((e) => process.env[e] !== undefined)) {
+    process.env['NX_DAEMON'] = 'false';
+    process.env['NX_ISOLATE_PLUGINS'] = 'false';
+  }
+}
 
 async function main() {
+  handleAgenticSandbox();
   if (
     process.argv[2] !== 'report' &&
     process.argv[2] !== '--version' &&
