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How do you let an AI agent execute code safely (sandboxing)?

Code-execution agents are powerful and dangerous: arbitrary model-generated code runs on your infrastructure. The signal is real isolation (containers/VMs), resource limits, and network/filesystem restrictions, not 'trust the model.' Here is the answer.

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Code-execution agents are powerful and dangerous: arbitrary model-generated code runs on your infrastructure. The signal is real isolation (containers/VMs), resource limits, and network/filesystem restrictions, not 'trust the model.' Here is the answer.

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