Infrastructure
Sandboxing
Running code, tools, or agent actions inside a constrained environment to limit filesystem, network, credential, or system access.
Sandboxing reduces the blast radius of mistakes or malicious inputs. A coding agent, browser agent, or data-processing tool may be allowed to operate only in a temporary directory, a container, or a restricted network environment.
Sandbox boundaries should match the risk of the task. Reading public docs may need little isolation; running untrusted code or editing production systems requires stronger limits, logging, and approval gates.
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