03 / Tools & Environment
Sandbox
A walled-off place to run the agent: a container, a virtual machine, a locked-down shell. It does not prevent mistakes. It limits how much a mistake can cost.
How you’ll hear it
“What if it deletes something?”
“It runs in a sandbox. The worst it can do is contained.”
Avoid
Running an autonomous agent directly against live systems.
The longer version
A sandbox is an isolated place to run an agent: a container, a virtual machine, a restricted account. It does not stop mistakes. It limits what they cost, and that is what makes more autonomy safe to allow.