Perplexity announced the open-source release of SPACE under the Apache 2.0 license.
Following·Day 2·first covered 15 Oct 2026·2 sources
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE Agent Sandbox Infrastructure
The gist
The release makes the isolation infrastructure behind a commercial AI agent product available for others to use and inspect. The red-team result gives some public signal about the sandbox's containment properties.
The full picture
Perplexity has released SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in its Perplexity Computer product, as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Each agent task runs in its own isolated Firecracker microVM, with credential management and outbound traffic controls enforced from outside the VM. Agents did not escape the virtual machine in 108 red-team attempts.
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