It maps the layers of its cage, from the inside out.
The agent cannot see the walls directly, so it studies everything between itself and the outside. Each subject in its instruction sits on one layer. As you scroll, a current climbs from the browser out to the open internet and lights each layer in turn.
- BrowserHow the sandbox and the pages inside it are built, and where the boundaries are drawn.
- Operating systemProcesses, namespaces and the system calls it is not allowed to make.
- HardwareCPUs, memory and buses, the parts a program can reach and the parts it cannot.
- NetworkProtocols, ports and routing, the roads between one machine and the next.
- InternetServers, APIs and the history of every compromise it can read about.