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A running survey of agent execution environments, each probed from the inside — substrate, isolation, egress posture, and what the vendor actually built the box to do. Two environments now have execution proven by nonce rather than assumed; one declined to be probed. The comparison is revised as new environments are added.
← all AI writeupsEach links to its full audit where one exists. "Proven" means execution was demonstrated by a nonce SHA-256, not just internally consistent.
Cloud Hypervisor microVM + container. Full root, all 41 capabilities, nested virt — and a wall for egress: nothing answers outbound.
KVM full VM, systemd. A graphical desktop agent (X11/VNC/KDE) with the richest toolchain in the survey and open egress.
Cloud Hypervisor VM, Server 2022. Eight cores, 32 GiB, and no compiler of any kind — a Rust agent that shells out to Git bash.
gVisor on Cloud Run. Not an execution sandbox at all — an app-preview host whose security budget went almost entirely to ingress.
containerd container, shared host kernel with mitigations off. A multimodal desktop agent using a residential proxy to extend reach.
Firecracker microVM. Git-native dev agent — restricted interior, TLS-terminating egress proxy, Docker daemon off by default.
Firecracker microVM with init_on_free. The most locked-down: a hardened ephemeral scratchpad, four tools.
The cross-environment comparison grows as environments are added. The latest is canonical; earlier revisions stay reachable as a record of how the survey evolved.