AI desktop app or web app: what changes for a security review?
A desktop AI assistant runs on the endpoint, a web one in the browser. Compare what each can reach, how each updates, and which questions change in review.
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A desktop AI assistant runs on the endpoint, a web one in the browser. Compare what each can reach, how each updates, and which questions change in review.
Persistent sandboxes save setup time but carry files, secrets and poisoned context forward. Weigh fresh versus persistent environments and what to ask.
Event triggers hand outsiders a way to start your agent. Compare time, API and event triggers, filters, batching, and what to lock down for each.
A fresh sandbox per task limits leftover state and cross-task leakage. When reuse is acceptable, and what to wipe if you do reuse an agent environment.
Codex pairs a sandbox mode with an approval policy. See what read-only, workspace-write, on-request, and never mean, and which pairing suits which repo.
Scheduled AI tasks usually act as the person who created them. What that means for commits, Slack posts, audit logs, leavers and shared automation.
Cloud routines include all your connectors by default. Trim to what the task needs, split read from write, and test with a narrow set first.
Compare AI assistants on scheduled tasks, file generation, desktop apps and remote sandboxes with one weighted scorecard that needs no vendor names.
Routines belong to personal accounts and act as their owner. A seven step offboarding checklist for scheduled AI tasks, tokens and connector grants.
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