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Ephemora Cell offers capability-based WASM sandbox for untrusted AI code

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Ephemora Cell is a new open-source execution layer designed to provide capability-based sandboxing for untrusted AI code, such as agents, tools, and plugins. It operates within a WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) runtime, enforcing explicit limits on what code can access and execute, unlike traditional container solutions. Benchmarks indicate Ephemora Cell successfully blocked eight documented attack primitives that a standard Python container failed to stop, offering sub-millisecond warm-start isolation for per-call sandboxing. AI

IMPACT Enhances security for AI agent tool execution by providing fine-grained control over code capabilities.

RANK_REASON This is a new open-source tool release for AI code execution security.

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Ephemora Cell offers capability-based WASM sandbox for untrusted AI code

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · M.S. ·

    Ephemora Cell: a capability-based WASM sandbox for untrusted AI code

    <p>AI agents do not only answer questions. They write code, call tools, and load plugins. The hard part is not starting that work. It is what the code is allowed to do once it runs.<br /> Permission systems answer “may it run?”</p> <p>They do not answer “how far may it run?”<br /…

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