Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE for Agents

SPACE targets the hardest infrastructure problem in agentic software: executing untrusted code with useful speed and reliable isolation.

• –Firecracker microVMs provide a stronger boundary than ordinary process or container sandboxes for coding and browsing agents.
• –Templates, writable filesystems, snapshots, pause/resume, and command sessions make the runtime composable for long-lived agent workflows.
• –Apache 2.0 licensing and production provenance give teams a credible self-hosting option.
• –Local deployment remains operations-heavy, requiring Linux x86_64, KVM, btrfs, Docker, and privileged host access.
• –Perplexity reports median sandbox creation latency falling from 185 ms to 60 ms, but independent security audits remain essential before running highly sensitive workloads.