Section 3 — Tools & Environment

    Sandbox

    An isolated environment the agent runs inside — a container, VM, ephemeral filesystem, or restrictedpermission shell. Limits the blast radius of agent actions: even if the agent...

    Matt Pocock
    Matt Pocock

    An isolated environment the agent runs inside — a container, VM, ephemeral filesystem, or restricted-permission shell. Limits the blast radius of agent actions: even if the agent runs destructive commands or fetches something malicious, the damage is contained. The safety substrate that makes AFK practical.

    Usage:

    "I want to let it run bypass-permissions overnight but I'm not ready for that."

    "Put it in a sandbox — fresh container, no credentials mounted, no network out. Worst case it nukes its own filesystem and you discard the container."

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