How two engineer side projects became the agent taking action inside Dropbox

Our short summary of Dropbox’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

Problem

Users wanted AI to edit their Dropbox files but needed safety and control over changes.

Created a sandboxed agent that connects to Dropbox via rclone, uses permission checks and version history to safely modify files and allow rollbacks.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.