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Microsoft Execution Containers for AI Agents

Intermediate · 10 min read

Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) hit 1.0.0 and general availability on October 7, 2026 - an OS-enforced, policy-driven sandbox for AI agents, with Rust, .NET and Node SDKs. We break down what MXC is (and isn’t), then compare the three ways to host agents in 2026: MXC on Windows, DigitalOcean’s managed bundles, and a self-hosted VPS.…

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