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An AI sandbox is an isolated environment where code from an AI coding agent runs without direct access to your machine or your production systems. If the agent runs a destructive command or a mistaken script, the damage stays contained inside the sandbox. Developers use AI sandboxing to let agents execute code freely while keeping the host and its credentials out of reach.

As development shifts toward agentic workflows, an AI agent is only as capable as the systems it can reach. Local MCP servers allow desktop CLI and IDE agents to execute multi-step tasks on your machine. But remote MCP servers (also called hosted MCP servers) extend that reach to cloud-based and background agents, allowing an agent running in a web browser, a CI runner, or a backend service to access external tools over HTTP without needing a developer’s machine running local child processes.