AID-I-008: Task-Scoped Browser & Computer-Use Workspace Isolation for Agents

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Isolate browser and desktop computer-use agents per task or trust zone across browser context, profile, origin, workspace, and OS-automation boundaries. Cover cookies, local storage, IndexedDB, cache, history, downloads, clipboard, screenshots, desktop-session state, and automation permissions so hostile web content or residual authenticated state cannot cross task boundaries.

The children separately own ephemeral context lifecycle, cross-origin read/write segmentation, download and clipboard transfer quarantine, authentication-bearing navigation isolation, and disposable desktop workspaces with action confirmation.

Scope boundary

Owns task- or trust-zone isolation of browser-managed state and disposable desktop computer-use workspaces, including contexts, profiles, origins, cookies, local storage, IndexedDB, cache, history, downloads, clipboard, screenshots, desktop-session state, and automation permissions.

AID-I-007: AID-I-008 isolates browser-managed and desktop-workspace state around an agent task; AID-I-007 confines the client-side model or model-runtime component itself. A sandboxed model component does not rotate authenticated browser state, and a fresh browser context does not prove that the embedded model runtime has a minimal capability boundary.

AID-H-019: AID-I-008 isolates browser and desktop state after content is admitted to a computer-use workflow; AID-H-019 owns URL admission, safe fetch, content demotion, observation export, and the outer browser process boundary. Safe content handling does not replace per-task state isolation, and an isolated workspace does not make an untrusted URL or observation safe.

AID-I-001.003: AID-I-008 owns browser-context and desktop-workspace state lifecycle; AID-I-001.003 owns the enclosing single-use sandbox lifecycle and teardown. A fresh browser profile can run inside a reused process sandbox, and a fresh process sandbox can still inherit browser-managed state unless both controls are enforced.

AID-I-004: AID-I-008 isolates browser and desktop automation state; AID-I-004 isolates conversational context, tool traces, peer messages, and persistent agent memory. Browser storage or clipboard cleanup does not prove model-context hygiene, and clearing agent memory does not remove cookies, downloads, desktop files, or authenticated browser residue.

Sub-techniques

Threat mappings

MITRE ATLAS

MAESTRO

OWASP LLM Top 10 2026

OWASP ML Top 10 2023

OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026

NIST Adversarial Machine Learning 2025

Cisco Integrated AI Security and Safety Framework

Google Secure AI Framework 2.0 - Risks

Databricks AI Security Framework 3.0

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