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sandbox

An isolated environment where an agent's commands cannot reach anything you care about. The honest prerequisite for letting it run commands unattended.

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Where it comes up

Cursor for Security Teams

Feb 5, 2026first said at 5:547 mentions

“that you can use like I'm running this in sandbox, but when it's coming to running this command, I want to approve it. And so, that's what it's doing here. And what I will do is just read this. Um, agent generating this command is very fast…”

Securing Agentic Coding at Scale

Feb 17, 2026first said at 8:056 mentions

“validate that that's what you want the agent to do. Uh second, we'll talk about model and MCP controls. So admins have the ability to restrict exactly which models and tools teams have access to. If you don't want agents calling an unapprov…”

Cursor 2.0 Launch

Nov 5, 2025first said at 16:314 mentions

“I went ahead and allowed that. It's updating our git ignore. Great. Other questions while this is still cooking here? Um, can we also explain sandbox versus everything else? Um, so there's kind of multiple modes you can have the agent run i…”

Cursor for Enterprise

Apr 16, 2026first said at 14:122 mentions

“So users have a little bit of flexibility there as well. Awesome. Cool. Jumping into the next piece on like a deployment scenario as well is sandboxing. So sandboxing pretty deep subject. I actually have a just linked out here a blog articl…”

Cursor for Java Developers

Mar 12, 2026first said at 7:512 mentions

“swing swing gooey. That's very interesting as different models modules. Uh, some requirements that needs to be that that needs to have is JDK 17. That's very good understanding. And how to get started and run your project. Okay, this is goo…”

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 7:091 mention

“that on so that we can actually just have, um, a pretty frictionless, uh, setup for our demonstration today. You can also come into the sandbox and customize your different settings. So, that's another thing that I would recommend. Um, as w…”

Cursor for Mobile Developers

Apr 23, 2026first said at 3:271 mention

“need there. And then you're just going to have your uh terminal here. So, for each agent that's going to run, it's going to have its own sandbox terminal. Um so, you can access that as well. And then you're going to have that cursor browser…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

May 21, 2026first said at 26:191 mention

“And so, this lets you scale capacity, right? And so, we can see a quick demo here. Um but these cloud agents are running in their own isolated sandbox VM. And they're given a little more autonomy, right? Because they're meant to do their ow…”