---
title: "YOLO Mode, Safely: microVM Sandboxes for Any Agent"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "1:30pm-1:50pm"
track: "Expo Stage 2 NW"
room: "Expo Stage 2 NW"
speakers: ["Rowan Christmas"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: ""
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 2 NW"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 2 NW", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# YOLO Mode, Safely: microVM Sandboxes for Any Agent

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:30pm-1:50pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 2 NW
- Speaker(s): Rowan Christmas
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 2 NW
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
This talk shows the alternative: every agent session in its own microVM, with its own kernel and a hard boundary to the host. You decide what lives inside that boundary: filesystem, network, the tools it's allowed to call. The sandbox runs Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whatever else you're driving. You'll see an agent live in full YOLO mode inside a sandbox, a real attempt to escape, and the boundary that holds up.

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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### Media Signals
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[rowan-christmas]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# YOLO Mode, Safely: microVM Sandboxes for Any Agent ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:30pm-1:50pm - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 2 NW - Speaker(s): Rowan Christmas - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 2 NW - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description This talk shows the alternative: every agent session in its own microVM, with its own kernel and a hard boundary to the host. You decide what lives inside that boundary: filesystem, network, the tools it's allowed to call. The sandbox runs Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whatever else you're driving. You'll see an agent live in full YOLO mode inside a sandbox, a real attempt to escape, and the boundary that holds up.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[rowan-christmas|Rowan Christmas]] — Staff Product Manager at [[docker|Docker]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[ai-sandboxes]]
- [[coding-agents]]

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
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