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Agent Interfaces: choosing between CLI, API, browser use, computer use, and sandboxes
Which door does an agent act through? Adapted from the MIT-licensed curriculum's Stage 8 concept chapter: eight recurring terms, a 'smallest interface first' decision table, the three tables to draw before letting an agent act (allowlist, actions, approval gates), and the four questions to ask of any browser/computer-use benchmark score. The bigger the door, the higher the risk — the first principle is to pick the smallest, most inspectable one.
What an AI Agent Can Actually See on Your Computer
Which files an AI Agent can read, whether it can go online, whether it can delete things, and whether what you say gets used for training. This article splits 'what can it do' into four separately verifiable questions, and explains what permission modes, sandboxes, and working directories each block — and don't.
What Codex Is: OpenAI's Coding Agent, on Two Legs — Local and Cloud
The four forms hiding under the name Codex: the open-source Codex CLI (running in your terminal), the IDE extension, the desktop app, and Codex Web which runs tasks in parallel in the cloud. Covers installation, sign-in and billing models, sandboxing and approval mechanics, and how its form factor differs from Claude Code.
What Is DeepSeek Harness: The Open-Source Agent Runtime Where 'Everything Is a Plugin'
DeepSeek's officially open-sourced agent runtime (npm package @deepseek-ai/dsh) bundles sessions, tools, workspaces, sandboxing, approvals, the agent loop, and dual interfaces, under the design slogan 'Everything is a Plugin'. One article covering what is in the box, what it looks like running, what it is not, and the mindset the developer-preview stage calls for.
What Hermes Agent Is: An Open-Source Agent Where One Gateway Serves Twenty-Odd Messaging Platforms
Nous Research's open-source multi-channel Agent: one resident gateway process serves WeChat, WeCom, Feishu/Lark, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, email and twenty-odd other platforms at once, sharing one memory, generating skills automatically, and supporting natural-language scheduling plus five sandbox backends. Includes installation methods, common commands and the security defaults.