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by mg 102 days ago
But does the agent have access to a whole computer to write those tools?

Couldn't it write them in a web based dev environment?

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No, it doesn't, I only run agents in a dedicated development environment (somewhat sandboxed in the file system) but that's how I've used them since the beginning, I don't want it to be accessing my file system as a whole, I only need it to look at code.

Don't think a web-based dev environment would be enough for my use case, I point agents to look into example code from other projects in that environment to use as as bootstraps for other tools.

Why can't that "dedicated development environment" be a cloud VM with a web interface, a GitHub codespace for example?

You could put the example code on the filesystem of that VM too.

It could be…