Temporal Sandbox Orchestration Harness: The missing layer for running agents

Temporal Workflows is a framework that supports large-scale AI agent workloads by providing durable and reliable context management, which is critical for the execution of untrusted, agent-generated code. This necessitates the use of secure and isolated sandbox environments that can execute such code without risk to underlying systems. Temporal has identified a common need among its customers for standardized approaches to integrating sandboxes within its workflows. In response, they have introduced reference materials and code samples to guide the orchestration of sandboxes, ensuring they can be provisioned, managed, and terminated efficiently in line with workflow requirements. These sandboxes, offered by providers like Modal and Amazon Bedrock, boot quickly and allow for state persistence and recovery, addressing the challenges of maintaining agent workflows. Temporal's initiative aims to standardize sandbox orchestration, providing templates and best practices that facilitate seamless integration and enhance the lifecycle management of these compute environments within agent infrastructures.