Building a Self-Healing AI Agent: How to Run Untrusted Code Safely Without Blowing Up Your Server

Imagine you are building an autonomous AI agent. You give it a terminal tool, a file-writing tool, and the ability to execute Python scripts. You ask it to "clean up the temporary files in the project directory." The LLM processes the request, formulates a plan, and generates a terminal command. But due to a subtle parsing error or a hallucinated variable, it executes: rm -rf / temp In a fraction of a second, your host system is wiped out. This is the nightmare scenario for every de...