Perplexity open sources SPACE, its sandbox for AI agents

The Apache 2.0 platform runs agent code inside Firecracker microVMs and reports median sandbox spin-up of around 60 milliseconds Perplexity AI logo, trademark of Perplexity AI, Inc.; logo file public domain on Wikimedia Commons (recolored to brand… Perplexity AI has released the code behind SPACE, the internal sandbox that keeps its AI agents in a locked room while they work. The company announced on October 15, 2026, that the platform is now available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. The name stands for Sandboxed Platform for Agentic Code Execution. The job is simple: let autonomous software run code without letting it touch anything it shouldn’t. Under the hood, SPACE is built on Firecracker microVMs, a virtualization technology developed by AWS.

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