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Safety, Security & Runtime Controls

Market Containment

Permeable sandbox with gated channels that separates agentic markets from live financial infrastructure.

Three Pillars

Why This Becomes Necessary

Giving autonomous agents unfettered access to real-world systems creates capability exfiltration and market manipulation risks; a controlled, separated environment is required to govern all external interactions before agents reach production.

What a Solution Must Provide

Effective containment needs an explicitly defined perimeter, vetted API gateway controls for all external data access, monitored input/output channels, and gated escalation procedures for agents whose activity approaches containment boundaries.

Regulatory & Standards Angle

EU AI Act Article 9 mandates ongoing risk management systems for high-risk AI; a permeable sandbox architecture with monitored gateways provides the operational risk containment layer that satisfies this requirement for agents operating in financial contexts.

Related Primitives

Relevant: EU AI Act Article 9 – Risk Management System - Article 9 requires providers of high-risk AI to implement risk management systems covering the entire lifecycle; market containment architectures with gated channels are a direct implementation mechanism for this obligation. Source
Research: Distributional AGI Safety — Tomasev et al.
“The agentic market must operate within a controlled environment, separated from the open internet, real-world financial systems, and critical infrastructure... Agents' access to external data must be managed through vetted API gateways rather than direct web access. A permeable sandbox, where all input/output channels are explicitly defined, monitored, and gated, provides a more practical architecture for testing and operation.”
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