How do you let an AI agent execute code safely (sandboxing)?

Code-execution agents are powerful and dangerous: arbitrary model-generated code runs on your infrastructure. The signal is real isolation (containers/VMs), resource limits, and network/filesystem restrictions, not 'trust the model.' Here is the answer.

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Applied AI Engineering·Tools and your first agentSign in13mWhat a tool call actually is, mechanicallyThe single most useful correction for anyone new to tool use: the model never runs anything. It emits a request, your code decides whether to honour it, and that boundary is where all the safety and most of the reliability live.Applied AI Engineering·Tools and your first agentSign in14mTool design is prompt engineering by another nameThe model chooses tools using only their names, descriptions and parameter schemas. That surface is the whole prompt for the decision, which makes tool design an authoring problem rather than an API problem, and explains most wrong-tool bugs.

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