GitHub put a normal-sounding feature into public preview this month: cloud and local sandboxes for Copilot.
Normal is doing a lot of work there.
The release says Copilot can now run inside secure, isolated sandboxes, either locally on the developer machine or in a GitHub-hosted cloud environment. Local mode restricts the filesystem, network, and system capabilities available to shell commands started by Copilot. Cloud mode gives the agent an ephemeral Linux environment, with enterprise policies attached.
That sounds like a product checkbox.
I think it is closer to a new category of enterprise desktop.
