@Scobleizer: Keep your agents in their own sandbox. Properly, so they don’t want to escape.
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Announces the launch of Archal, an API that provides stateful sandbox environments for AI agents to run tests and perform CI and evaluations.
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Keep your agents in their own sandbox.
Properly, so they don’t want to escape.
Aidan Tiruvan (@AidanTiruvan): Just launched Archal (YC S26): API sandboxes built for AI agents!
Your coding agent can spin up Slack, Linear, Datadog, and 20+ stateful environments for CI and evals. It can run tests, inspect state changes, and reset everything.
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