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Your Agent Should Not Run as You: What Windows Now Offers for Containing AI Agents

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If you run a coding agent on Windows today, its shell commands usually run with your full user rights: your SSH keys, your browser profile, your whole home folder. Microsoft is now putting OS-level boundaries around agents, and a lot of it lands on the developer side first. We spent some time readi…

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  1. 2026-10-21 08:05 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Agent Should Not Run as You: What Windows Now Offers for Containing AI Agents

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