26th January 2026
Research
What we learned today about this ChatGPT “container” environment
— Experiments in the ChatGPT sandbox reveal that general outbound internet access from Python and other user code (such as HTTP requests) is entirely blocked, while package managers like pip and npm are permitted to fetch dependencies using curated internal registry proxies. The container provides a privileged fetching mechanism (`container.download`) for select public URLs, which is more powerful than standard code-based networking.
Recent articles
- sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations - 7th July 2026
- sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) - 5th July 2026
- Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video - 30th June 2026