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COMPEL Glossary / sandboxing
Sandboxing
Technical isolation that limits an agent's actions to a bounded environment — file-system jail, network-namespace restriction, container, VM, or ephemeral cloud workspace — so that a misbehaving agent cannot reach systems of record, production data, or external networks.
What this means in practice
Distinct from kill-switch because it is a preventive control rather than a halt mechanism.
Synonyms
agent containment , execution sandbox , agent environment isolation
See also
- Computer use / browser-use agent — An AI agent that operates through a browser or computer user interface against third-party systems rather than via APIs — taking screenshots, clicking, typing, and scrolling.
- Tool use / function calling — A prompt pattern authorizing the model to request named functions with structured arguments — searching the web, reading a database, calling a calculator, triggering an API — rather than generating all answers from its weights.