Glossary

Agent environment

Also called: agent sandbox, isolated environment

Definition

An agent environment is the isolated place an agent runs: its own filesystem, process space, credentials, and resource limits, separate from other agents.

In practice

Isolation matters for two reasons that get conflated. The first is safety: an agent that can read another agent's files or credentials turns one mistake into several. The second is operations: separate environments mean one agent's crash loop or memory leak cannot take down the rest. An environment can hold a single agent or a team of agents that deliberately work together and share a workspace, which is a different arrangement from agents that share a machine by accident. The distinction to hold onto is that isolation is a boundary you chose, not an absence of one.

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