Agentastic

Learn how personal AI agents work

A personal AI agent is a model wrapped in the things that let it act for you: memory of who you are, access to your apps and accounts, a computer or browser to work in, and rules about when it must ask first. These guides explain each piece in plain English, with dated sources and no hype.

Start anywhere. Each guide stands on its own and links to the ones it builds on.

Personal AI agents

What Is a Personal AI Agent? How Personalized Agents Actually Work

A personal AI agent is an AI that knows you and can act for you. It remembers your context, reaches your accounts, works in its own browser or computer, and asks before it commits you. Here is how the pieces fit, with Muse, Dots, OpenClaw and Hermes as examples.

Updated 9 min read

Sandboxes & agent VMs

What Is an AI Agent Sandbox? And Why Agents Keep Escaping Them

An agent sandbox is the boundary around what an AI agent can touch: files, processes, network and credentials. Here is how sandboxes work, the five levels of isolation, and why the 2026 'escapes' were really network leaks.

Updated 10 min read