Follow-up: traces miss side effects, which is what enables agent sandbox obfuscation
lbeurerkellner · x · 2026-09-29
A follow-up in the same agent-security thread: the author concedes the attack of building unreconstructible sandbox states via nondeterminism is somewhat theoretical, but the mechanism is clear — traces don't capture all side effects, so some environment changes stay hidden, leaving room for obfuscation.
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