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How we contain Claude across products (Anthropic Engineering)
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The most detailed first-party account so far of how a lab limits an agent's blast radius: sandboxes, virtual machines, and egress controls as containment boundaries. The argument worth reading is that repeated permission prompts create approval fatigue, so you constrain what the agent can do rather than lean on a human watching every step.
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- The AISI incident report, an agent that rewrote itself, and Letta Mods
Aug 06, 2026 · in the sections
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