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8/2/2026

The original title is "A 5-minute preflight before giving an AI coding agent write access"
Original: A 5-minute preflight before giving an AI coding agent write access
Short summary
A practical five-minute preflight checklist for repositories before granting AI coding agents write access. Covers environment reproducibility, fast local feedback loops, command safety classification, credential leak prevention, and verification-evidence handoff standards. Each area is scored 0-2, with low scores indicating supervised read-only usage rather than outright avoidance.
- •Five preflight areas: environment reproducibility, fast feedback loop, command safety tiers, credential/instruction boundaries, and verification-evidence handoff
- •Score each area 0-2; low scores mean start read-only and fix gaps incrementally
- •Author offers a free browser-based audit tool and a paid repository kit with templates and guardrails
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