★Securing AI Agents: A Practical Guide to Anthropic’s srt Lightweight Sandbox★

Picture this: You’re using an AI code assistant to auto-generate deployment scripts when a chilling thought hits—what if it accidentally deletes core configuration files or secretly sends server keys to an external domain? As AI agents (like automation tools and MCP servers) become integral to development workflows, the question of “how to keep them within safe boundaries” grows increasingly urgent. Traditional containerization solutions are too heavy, with configurations complex enough to deter half of developers. Simple permission controls, on the other hand, are too blunt to prevent sophisticated privilege escalations. That’s where Anthropic’s open-source Sandbox Runtime (srt) comes in—a lightweight …