Couple of learnings to share that I hope could be of use:
1) Execution sandboxing is just the start. For any enterprise usage you want fairly tight network egress control as well to limit chances of accidental leaks or malicious exfiltration if theres any risk of untrusted material getting into model context. Speaking as a decision maker at a tech company we do actually review stuff like this when evaluating tools.
2) Once you have proper network sandboxing, you could secure credentials much better: give agent only dummy surrogates and swap them to real creds on the way out.
3) Sandboxed agents with automatic provisioning of workspace from git can be used for more than just development tasks. In fact, it might be easier to find initial traction with a more constrained and thus predictable tasks. E.g., “ask my codebase” or “debug CI failures”.
[1] https://airut.org [2] https://haulos.com/blog/building-agents-over-email/
Obviously cloud is better for making money, and some kind of VPC or local cloud solution is best for enterprise, but perhaps for individual devs, a self-hosted system on a home desktop computer running 24/7 (hybrid desktop / server) would be the best solution?
Are there benchmarks out there that back this claim?