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Strands Box enforces fine-grained AI agent action policies

Builders must move beyond coarse sandbox isolation to fine-grained policy enforcement that governs not only what resources an AI agent can reach but also what it can do with them, enabling safer delegation of autonomous tasks.

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AWS launches Strands Box combining OS isolation with Dogwood policy enforcement

AWS introduced Strands Box, an open source sandbox that not only isolates AI agents at the operating system level but also enforces fine-grained policies using the Dogwood policy language and local engine. This allows controlling what actions an agent can perform on resources, addressing risks from agent autonomy beyond simple access control.