Safety by Design in Agentic AI: Sandboxing and Cryptographic Guardrails

ABSTRACT

As Agentic AI systems are granted read/write access to production databases, cloud infrastructures, and financial APIs, the risk of catastrophic runaway actions increases exponentially. This paper proposes a 'Safety by Design' architecture for autonomous agents. We introduce a dual-layer security protocol: a containerized MicroVM sandbox for executing generated code, and a cryptographic 'Intent Gateway' that mathematically verifies an agent's proposed API call against its original human-approved mandate before execution.