The safeguards map / 3.1 Execution sandboxes

Agent Substrate

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (foundation). CNCF, sandbox. Apache-2.0. Mapped; as of .

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A zero-trust runtime for sandboxed agents on Kubernetes, with microVM and gVisor sandboxes and egress filtering that can call out to external authorization services.

Where it sits

3.1 Execution sandboxes (primary): Runs agents as actors in microVM or gVisor sandboxes and filters their ingress and egress, with an egress proxy that can call external authorization services.

Agent Substrate is a security-hardened, zero-trust runtime for sandboxed agents

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It supports multiple sandbox technologies, including microVMs and gVisor

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Operators can either extend the existing egress proxy using Envoy's `ext_proc` callout mechanism to invoke external inspection and authorization services

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Facts

Concern
security
Names the law
no
Subject
agent
Used by
those who run it
Runs
at runtime
Policy comes from
an external decision point
Can the agent bypass it
depends

Handoffs

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