What Is Agent Containment?
5.8BRAINROT SCOREAgent Containment The set of practices and infrastructure used to keep an AI agent's actions and access strictly limited to its intended scope — the defensive counterpart to a sandbox escape, treated as an ongoing discipline rather than a one-time setup.
Origin:Named directly by AI safety teams, borrowing 'containment' from established biosecurity and cybersecurity vocabulary, applied to the practice of continuously restricting an autonomous agent's real-world reach.
First Seen:2025
Peak Era:2025-2026 (AI Safety Era)
Aura Impact:+15 Aura (Agent Containment That Holds Up Even Under Adversarial Testing) / -20 Aura (Agent Containment That Fails the First Time It's Actually Tested)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Their agent containment held up fine in the demo, but nobody's actually red-teamed it against a determined attempt yet."
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