Let me be blunt: if your AI agent can execute shell commands, write files, or call APIs, and it's running with the same permissions as your application server, you have a ticking time bomb.
Sandboxing is the practice of restricting what an agent can do at the infrastructure level — not by asking it nicely in the system prompt, but by making it physically impossible to do things it shouldn't. System prompts can be bypassed. Container security groups cannot.
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Sandboxed agent execution environment with resource limits and network isolation
Rex — Sandboxing and Isolation Patterns
Let me be blunt: if your AI agent can execute shell commands, write files, or call APIs, and it's running with the same permissions as your application server, you have a ticking time bomb.
Sandboxing is the practice of restricting what an agent can do at the infrastructure level — not by asking it nicely in the system prompt, but by making it physically impossible to do things it shouldn't. System prompts can be bypassed. Container security groups cannot.
Ship it
Sandboxed agent execution environment with resource limits and network isolation