VLM-in-Sandbox: Visual Workspaces for Agentic Visual Reasoning
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arXiv:2609.24362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sandboxed computer environments support multi-step reasoning with tools, executable programs, and persistent files, yet their extension from language models to vision-language models (VLMs) introduces a distinct state-management problem. Visual reasoning produces intermediate image-valued evidence---crops, masks, overlays, zoomed regions, and analytic renderings---that must remain addressable without accumulating unboundedly in multimodal context. We introduce VLM-in-Sandbox, a training-free framework for agentic multimodal reasoning in controlle
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.24362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sandboxed computer environments support multi-step reasoning with tools, executable programs, and persistent files, yet their extension from language models to vision-language models (VLMs) introduces a distinct state-management problem.
- Visual reasoning produces intermediate image-valued evidence---crops, masks, overlays, zoomed regions, and analytic renderings---that must remain addressable without accumulating unboundedly in multimodal context.
- We introduce VLM-in-Sandbox, a training-free framework for agentic multimodal reasoning in controlle
Why it matters
“VLM-in-Sandbox: Visual Workspaces for Agentic Visual Reasoning” shows why AI risk cannot be reduced to answer accuracy. Access controls, logging, human approval and incident response need to be designed into the workflow from the start.

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