sandbox — An isolated environment where AI-generated code or agent actions run without being able to touch anything real.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
agentic loop — The cycle an agent runs in: decide, call a tool, read the result, decide again — repeating until the goal is met or a stop condition fires.
Why it matters
Running a hosted, OpenAI-managed agentic loopThe cycle an agent runs in: decide, call a tool, read the result, decide again — repeating until the goal is met or a stop condition fires.Full definition → with persistent, isolated code-execution sandboxes, without operating your own long-lived infrastructure, is a concrete new deployment path for anyone building on the Agents API.
