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The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

Agent harnesses should run on backend infrastructure rather than sandboxes to avoid multi-user filesystem distribution problems, trading that complexity for durable execution and cold-start latency challenges.

Sunday, May 3, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline

Agent harnesses (the control loops driving LLMs) can run inside a sandbox container or outside on a backend API. The inside model is simpler for single-user agents but creates multi-user filesystem distribution problems; the outside model keeps credentials out of the sandbox and enables efficient resource usage but requires solving durable execution, cold-start latency, and distributed filesystem problems for multi-user scenarios.

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