Agent Permissions and Safety — Controlling the Blast Radius
Understand permission modes, sandboxing, and why safety rails matter when giving AI agents real capabilities.
An AI agent with access to your terminal, your git repos, your database, and your deployment pipeline is powerful. It's also dangerous. Not because the agent is malicious — but because it's confident, fast, and sometimes wrong.
When a human developer makes a mistake, they usually notice the typo before hitting enter, or they hesitate before running rm -rf. An agent doesn't hesitate. It acts at the speed of computation with the confidence of someone who has never seen a production outage.
This lesson is about building the safety systems that let you trust your agent with real work while containing the damage when things go wrong.
The Blast Radius Concept
Blast radius is the maximum damage a single mistake can cause. Every action your agent takes has a blast radius:
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