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SANDBOXING AGENTS AT THE KERNEL LEVEL

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AI agents can be sandboxed at the kernel level in Linux to prevent unauthorized file access. Tracing the `open` syscall shows three points of failure where file access can be denied: permission checks, mount point redirections, and changing the root directory of the process. Combining mount namespaces and root changes offers control over the agent's filesystem view.