5 house rules for letting AI agents commit code
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Hey Makers! ๐
Handing over repo access to autonomous coding agents is awesome, but honestly, it's also a great way to break things if you aren't careful.
My team recently set up a strict "Zero Trust" baseline to keep things under control. Here are the 5 rules we actually enforce right now:
Bound the blast radius before the first run
Assume it reads everything it can reach
Treat everything the agent reads as a potential instruction
Verify like it's a stranger's pull request
Be ready to do forensics
I'm really curious how other engineering teams are handling this shift. Would love to hear your thoughts below! ๐
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For the small subset of applications that genuinely require custom coding, Iโd combine a zero-trust environment with a behavior-first workflow and high-quality BDD specifications.
For everything else, Iโd remove autonomous repository access from the equation entirely: model the business first and generate the application deterministically. Thatโs what weโre building with modelARch.