Whitepaper
From Prompt to Production
Vibe coding is transforming how enterprises build software — but speed without guardrails is just risk at scale. LLMs are non-deterministic systems, and the code they generate inherits every vulnerability that traditional software does, plus novel attack surfaces like prompt injection, cascading trust, and the confused deputy problem.
Containers, the dominant deployment model, make it worse: default-open environments, ambient authority, and bloated images compound every exploit path. With Cosmonic Control and WebAssembly sandboxing, you can enable your teams to vibe code at full speed while enforcing deny-by-default execution, the principle of least authority, and zero-trust isolation across every phase of the AI software development life cycle: from prompt to production.

Instantly Sandbox AI Generated Apps
Workflows, MCP, and more - with Cosmonic Control and CNCF wasmCloud.
Enable Vibe Coding While Containing the Risk
Give your engineering teams the AI-powered development tools they're asking for while enforcing security boundaries they can't bypass. Deny-by-default sandboxing means every LLM-generated artifact: prompt, tool call, or application runs with zero ambient authority, so you move as fast as your competitors without inheriting their exposure.
Eliminate Lateral Movement from Day Zero
WebAssembly components start with no permissions, no network access, and no filesystem visibility. Unlike containers, there's nothing to restrict after the fact because there's nothing granted in the first place. A compromised component can't pivot, persist, or exfiltrate - the blast radius is the component itself.
Kubernetes Compatible
Deploy sandboxed workloads alongside your existing containerized services on any cloud, on-premises, or at the edge. Cosmonic Control integrates with your current CI/CD pipelines, ingress/egress policies, and observability stack; no rip-and-replace required.
Build Better Together: Containers & WebAssembly
Cosmonic Control runs sandboxed WebAssembly components alongside your existing containerized services on the same Kubernetes clusters, the same CI/CD pipelines, and the same observability tools. Containers handle what they're good at; Wasm handles what they can't — microsecond cold starts, kilobyte-scale footprints, and deny-by-default isolation for every AI-generated workload. It's not a migration. It's an upgrade that meets your platform where it already is.
Secure Virtual Capabilities
Leverage WebAssembly’s ability to virtualize contract-driven APIs and virtual filesystems, enabling isolated components to interact safely through precisely defined, policy-enforced boundaries.
Sandboxed MCP
Secure capability-driven sandboxes with CNCF wasmCloud limit the impact of LLM prompt injection, data exfiltration, and lateral movement.
Why use WebAssembly to Sandbox AI Apps?
WebAssembly embraces first principles - deny-by-default, capability driven security, and scaling to zero with zero cold starts. Compatible with your existing infrastructure on premises, in the cloud, or on the edge.
How is WebAssembly Security different from containers or VMs?
Wasm uses a capability-based security model. Code runs with zero default privileges and can only call APIs you explicitly expose. Unlike containers, which assume a full Linux kernel and then try to bolt on seccomp/AppArmor, Wasm starts at zero and adds just what’s needed — dramatically shrinking the attack surface.
Why does “scale to zero” matter for MCP?
MCP servers are often idle until an AI agent calls them. Wasm components can start in milliseconds and consume almost no resources when idle. That means you can run hundreds or thousands of isolated MCPs without paying a container tax or keeping dormant pods alive.
How does Wasm portability help my enterprise architecture?
Wasm runs the same binary anywhere: dev laptops, edge gateways, or multi-cloud clusters. This eliminates drift between environments and makes MCP extensions easy to move, test, and redeploy without re-platforming.
Can I leverage my existing Kubernetes investments?
Cosmonic extends Kubernetes with a control plane for Wasm components. You keep your existing K8s infrastructure — networking, monitoring, RBAC — but gain a secure, lightweight substrate to run MCP sandboxes side by side with containers. This lets platform teams build better together: reuse K8s governance and observability while introducing Wasm’s speed and safety for AI-driven workloads.
How does this approach future-proof my AI/agent strategy?
As AI adoption grows, so will the need to run untrusted or partner-supplied code safely. Wasm provides a stable, forward-compatible sandbox model that works across clouds and chips, while Cosmonic keeps the operational model aligned with Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling you already own.
Where does this run — cloud or on-premises?
Anywhere you already run Kubernetes. WebAssembly sandboxes work on all major K8s distributions — including Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware VCF, Rancher, Canonical Charmed K8s, SUSE NeuVector, and upstream open-source Kubernetes.
Cosmonic’s control plane layers on top, so you can run MCP sandboxes in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid without changing your cluster strategy. If it’s Kubernetes, it works.
Ready to Run Now? Get Cosmonic
Spin up secure WebAssembly sandboxes for your AI generated code in minutes — seamlessly integrated with your CI/CD pipelines, ingress/egress policies, observability stack, and existing operational controls. No replatforming, just safer, faster AI infrastructure on the Kubernetes you already run.
