Exploring Wassette, Microsoft's Wasm tool for AI agents | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join F5's Joel Moses, guest host Pat Hickey, and Microsoft Developer Advocate Yosh Wuyts as they dive deep into Microsoft's new tool, Wassette, designed to enhance the security and functionality of AI agents through WebAssembly. Learn about Wassette's sandboxing capabilities, its design components like Wasmtime, and its integration with various programming languages. Discover how Wassette leverages the component model to offer a safer alternative for running code and managing permissions. Tune in to find out how Wassette could impact your MCP server configurations and development processes.
Read Yosh's blog Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08/06/introducing-wassette-webassembly-based-tools-for-ai-agents
Read Yosh's blog Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08/06/introducing-wassette-webassembly-based-tools-for-ai-agents
Creators and Guests
Host
Joel Moses
Distinguished Engineer & VP, Strategic Engineering at F5. Joel has over 30 years of industry experience in cybersecurity and networking fields. Prior to joining F5, he designed large scale security and infrastructure architectures for consulting clients and served as the lead US Security and Infrastructure Architect for one of the largest accounting/consulting firms in the world. At F5, he is a founding member of the Office of the CTO, and is principally responsible for advanced research, intellectual property, proof-of-concepts, and strategic studies related to security, hardware, and cloud technologies. He holds several US patents related to encryption techniques.
Guest
Pat Hickey
Pat Hickey has been working on WebAssembly since 2017. He was previously the co-chair of the WASI subgroup where he shipped the WASI 0.2 release, and he serves on the Bytecode Alliance Board of Directors.
