OpenAI is introducing sandbox execution that allows enterprise governance teams to deploy automated workflows with controlled risk.

Teams taking systems from prototype to production have faced difficult architectural compromises regarding where their operations occurred. Using model-agnostic frameworks offered initial flexibility but failed to fully utilise the capabilities of frontier models. Model-provider SDKs remained closer to the underlying model, but often lacked enough visibility into the control harness.

To complicate matters further, managed agent APIs simplified the deployment process but severely constrained where the systems could run and how they accessed sensitive corporate data.…