What is RL environment?
Answer in brief
A reproducible, resettable environment in which an agent takes actions and receives rewards, used to train or evaluate models.
RL environment in agent sandboxes
Reinforcement learning on agentic tasks needs thousands of isolated, identical environments started and torn down quickly, often with forking from a common snapshot. Sandbox platforms with high concurrency, fast snapshot restore and per-second billing fit this workload.
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Agent Sandboxes. (2026). What is RL environment?. agentsandboxes.org. Last reviewed November 8, 2026. https://agentsandboxes.org/glossary/rl-environment/
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