Akamai announced Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox on October 27. Inference offers OpenAI-compatible API access to 12 open-weight models. Agent Sandbox runs the JavaScript or Python code an agent writes inside a second WebAssembly boundary, with outbound network access blocked by default.

The sandbox also supports network and resource limits. Akamai says agents can call tools and MCP servers while their generated code stays inside the restricted runtime. Spin is the open-source foundation, and both products are in beta.

The practical change is the control boundary around agent-written code. The launch is still vendor evidence, though.…