Choosing a Sandbox for AI Agents

Pick the right sandbox lifecycle for each pipeline stage, not the entire agent workflow.

Agent workloads need their own cost model because they burst in seconds, not hours.

Startup latency and perfect isolation pull apart — no sandbox architecture wins on both.

Pick the sandbox layer that protects your riskiest dimension first.

Containers alone can't isolate AI agents safely when model-generated code runs untrusted.

Blocking outbound connections is the actual security boundary, not isolation technology.

Four criteria determine whether a sandbox can safely run AI-generated code in production.