Introducing Chainguard Workspaces

Today, we are introducing Chainguard Workspaces to provide developers and agents with Chainguard-hardened, microVM-based environments that accelerate agentic development while maintaining the strict isolation and safeguards that enterprise security demands. Software engineering is increasingly a joint effort between human developers and AI agents. Across the industry, and in our own engineering team at Chainguard, it is common for a developer to run 5 or 6 parallel agent sessions at once across different branches of a repository to work on separate tasks or to explore competing strategies. On a local developer machine, these parallel sessions quickly collide, fighting over ports, processes, and build caches. When these collisions occur, developers have to stop what they’re doing and become system administrators. This cleanup eats into the time savings gained by delegating work to agents in the first place. Worse, to get their jobs done, agents need to install packages, run arbitrary shell scripts, and edit configurations. Running unconstrained machine execution on a developer laptop holding corporate credentials, SSH keys, and production access creates a…