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Marktechpost flags a genuinely useful release: Perplexity putting its production agent sandbox on GitHub under Apache 2.0 is one of the more practical open-source moves in the agent stack this cycle. Per-task Firecracker microVMs with egress and credential control outside the VM attack the real failure mode of browsing and coding agents — prompt injection escalating into credential theft. E2B and Docker-based sandboxes already fill this niche, but a production-tested implementation from a team running it at scale raises the bar for everyone. The likely consequence: agent isolation becomes commodity infrastructure fast, and differentiation shifts to orchestration and UX. Worth watching whether other agent vendors follow and open their own sandboxes — the era of running agents loose on the host is ending.
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM. Credentials and outbound traffic are controlled from outside that VM. The code ships under Apach…

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