5 Things Every AI Engineer Should Know About Agent Sandboxes Originally shared by Google Cloud Tech on X - September 1, 2026
Google Cloud Tech highlighted five critical considerations for AI engineers working with agent sandbox environments. These insights are crucial for anyone building secure, reliable AI agent systems.
Why This Matters Agent sandboxes are fundamental for:
Security isolation - Containing potentially unsafe agent actions Resource management - Controlling computational resources Execution boundaries - Defining safe operational limits Testing environments - Providing controlled spaces for agent development As someone working on AI agent systems at Google, these sandbox principles directly impact how we design memory architectures and agent runtime environments.
Agent Plugins Package Your Skills, Tools, and More Originally published on Google Developers Blog - August 6, 2026
Google has announced Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a new vendor-neutral directory specification backed by major tech companies including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. This standard aims to package Agent Skills and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers into portable, interoperable units.
Key Highlights The specification standardizes the manifest (plugin.json) and utilizes a fixed directory layout, eliminating the need for developers to maintain separate wrappers or configurations to support different AI coding agents and IDEs.
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My buddy Arthur recently shared this with me, his synthesis of research he’s been doing on how to be a more effective learner.
Stay engaged Choose to find the information useful Be invested in tackling difficult problems Try to anticipate what’s next Identify big idea Use them as anchor to connect details Periodically summarize what you’ve heard Keep conclusions tentative Evaluate evidence, don’t accept it at face value Ask followup questions Don’t get derailed Concentrate on the message, not the messenger Don’t get thrown off by emotionally charged language Don’t stop listening when you disagree Humanize the presenter, get to know them Adjust note taking to the presenter’s patterns Seriously - how great is that?
I’ve been using Elixir for a few weeks now, sometimes
forcing it to play nice with Mongodb/Meteor
, which it doesn’t really want to do.
Sometimes with Posgres (which it loves).
Sometimes just plain ole’ Elixir with no persistance.
I have been watching Elixir for almost 2 years now, and debating if it’s mature enough for me to invest in.
Obviously Erlang is super-mature, and Elixir is quite stable, but it’s a question of “is the community mature enough yet?”
Since I’m now writing this, I believe it is “ready”, and I’m beginning a journey to build out some services in Elixir
to stand up next to existing node services (meteorjs) and slow move funcitonality over to to Elixir.
Chapter One: Proof of Concept, Mongo is supposed to be Simple.
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I have made the formal household declaration that all screen time will be matched, hour-for-hour with project time. Yesterday we cleaned the 1st floor, mopped and everything. Today we went grocery shopping, made lunch, and then started on homework time.
To say that I am unpopular here, would be an understatement.
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Personal Nerd Goals publish - rejuvinate a history of developer advocacy learn elixir - build a couple of projects from a couple of angles learn machine learning basics
Best part of CodepaLOUsa so far… sitting next to Douglas Crockford at dinner tonight. Occasionally I’m the lucky one. (Hope I didn’t bore him too much)
Anyway – having a fun time at CodepaLOUsa and hope all other attendees are too.
http://codepalousa.com/schedule