What is a sandbox?

A sandbox is a walled-off place an agent runs in, so a mistake cannot reach anything that matters.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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A container, a virtual machine, a folder it cannot get out of.

It does not make the agent better. It limits how bad a bad run can get.