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Simon Willison reviews Anthropic's Claude sandboxing methods

Simon Willison's blog post details Anthropic's robust sandboxing techniques for its Claude models, emphasizing the importance of clear documentation for user trust. Anthropic employs various methods like process sandboxes, VMs, and egress controls to create hard boundaries for agent actions, preventing credential exfiltration. Specific implementations include gVisor for Claude.ai, Seatbelt/Bubblewrap for Claude Code, and full VMs for Claude Cowork, with Willison noting his intent to re-evaluate Anthropic's open-source srt tool. AI

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    How we contain Claude across products

    <p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude">How we contain Claude across products</a></strong></p> A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly <em>documented</em>, and in the absence of detailed docume…