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Story 12 of 13 in the Wednesday 11 November editionGoogle AI Studio adds self-hosted sandboxes for Gemini Managed Agents
Announced on 11 November 2026 for developers building with Managed Agents on the Gemini API, bring-your-own-sandbox support connects agent loops to custom self-hosted execution environments.
Edited by Ashutosh Shrivastava
12 Nov 2026, 10:05 IST · 1 min read
Google AI Studio added bring-your-own-sandbox support for Managed Agents on the Gemini API on 11 November 2026, allowing developers to execute agent-generated code and tool calls inside their own self-hosted runtime environments instead of relying solely on Google-hosted containers; Google did not announce separate orchestration surcharges in the launch post.
Technical details
- Release date
- 11 November 2026
- Supported developer surfaces
- Managed Agents in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API
- Execution model
- Bring-your-own self-hosted runtime sandboxes alongside Google-hosted containers (no surcharge announced)
Release details & context
Announced in Google AI Studio’s self-hosted sandboxes post on X, bring-your-own-sandbox routing lets Gemini Managed Agents execute code and tools inside an engineering team’s own VPC containers and custom runtime images, complementing Google’s broader agent infrastructure stack across Agent Compute Engine and confidential TPU 8tx pods and Google AI Studio’s built-in Maps Platform sandbox.
Sources
Google release timeline (24 launches tracked)
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