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This might be what you mean, but for anyone reading -- the point of Simon's article is the whole agent and all of its tools have to be considered part of the same sandbox, and the same security boundary. You can't sandbox MCPs individually, you have to sandbox the whole system together.

Specifically the core design principal is you have to be comfortable with any possible combination of things your agent can do with its tools, not only the combination you ask for.

If your agent can search the web and can access your WhatsApp account, then you can ask it to search for something and text you the results -- cool. But there's some possible search result that would take over its brain and make it post your WhatsApp history to the web. So probably you should not set up an agent that has MCPs to both search the web and read your WhatsApp history. And in general many plausibly useful combinations of tools to provide to agents are unsafe together.



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