AI & agents
Perplexity open-sources its SPACE agent sandbox
- Published
- Source
- Perplexity blog
Summary
On October 15, Perplexity released SPACE, the sandbox platform behind its personal agent Computer, under the Apache 2.0 license. Each sandbox runs inside a small virtual machine with its own operating system, while network access and credentials are managed by controls outside the sandbox. According to the company, SPACE has powered every Computer session since July, handles millions of sandbox creations per day, and creates sandboxes three to five times faster than its previous provider. In its published security evaluation, none of 108 deliberate escape attempts broke out of the virtual machine, and the network bypasses that were found have been fixed.
Why it matters for our work
Anyone can now inspect and reuse an isolated workspace where agents execute code and handle files. Teams considering agents have less need to build core isolation, recovery and credential-control infrastructure from scratch.
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