For developers, Cortex Sandboxes are likely to increase productivity, Chaturvedi said: “It takes away a chore most developers would happily skip, which is setting up a safe place for agent-written code to run. Today teams either build and secure their own containers, copy data somewhere else, or simply don’t let agents run code.”
“Sandboxes start next to the data, follow the permissions of whoever launched the agent, and shut down once the job is done, so developers can build agents that write and run analysis code without managing servers or juggling credentials,” Chaturvedi added.
That, in turn, for CIOs, should reduce risks, especially in terms of any damage an agent could do, as it will run in a walled-off secure environment, according to Ni.
