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Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE Agent Sandbox Platform Under Apache 2.0

October 17, 2026 at 23:35 EDT

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Perplexity AI has open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker microVM-based sandbox platform powering its Computer agent, giving developers production-tested infrastructure to isolate and govern autonomous AI agents. Released October 15 under the Apache 2.0 license, SPACE (Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution) represents the first public component of Perplexity's Agentic Runtime Platform and signals a shift toward treating agent safety as an engineering discipline rather than a model-only problem.

Breaking News • October 15, 2026

SPACE: Agent Sandbox Now Open Source

Perplexity releases production-tested sandbox infrastructure under Apache 2.0 to secure AI agents at scale.

Sandbox Speed

3–5×

Faster than prior provider

VM Escapes Blocked

108/108

Red team attack success rate

Daily Scale

Millions

Sandbox creations per day

Security Architecture

Agent Code Execution

Root access inside VM

Credential & Network Control

Enforced on host, outside VM

SPACE gives each agent its own Firecracker microVM with isolated kernel and network. Agents have full root access within the sandbox, but all credential management and outbound policy enforcement happens at the host level—outside the agent's reach.

Why it matters: As AI agents move from inference to autonomous task automation, infrastructure-layer controls are as critical as model safeguards. SPACE addresses the gap by offering production-tested isolation to any developer building agentic applications.

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