Two Jobs, One Word: What Agent Sandboxes Really Do

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 8, 2026 · 27m

Sandbox" now means two different things: a security boundary that fences an agent off from your host machine, and a lightweight cloud Linux workspace where the agent does its actual work. Almost every product does both, but the two instincts pull in opposite directions — one wants to seal, the other wants to be useful. Drawing on roughly forty code-execution sandbox products launched in a single year, plus the ephemeral-versus-persistent divide and the reproducibility problem of drifting base images, this episode maps the whole category. Along the way: why a laptop is a bad home for a…