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Thinking in public about AI governance.

Practical perspectives on governing AI agents, policy enforcement, security, audit trails, and what it means to deploy AI responsibly.

A coding agent workspace inside a green security boundary: a database request is blocked, a cloud request waits at an approval gate, and access to a key passes through an allowed door
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Coding Agent Security: How to Roll Out Claude Code and Cursor Without Unlimited Authority

A practical framework for rolling out AI coding agents safely across engineering teams without giving them unlimited shell, file, secret, or production access.

October 18, 2026·8 min read
Runtime policy boundary for AI agent actions: shell, repository, API, and cloud requests pass through, and an MCP request is denied before it reaches databases or tools
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AI Agent Runtime Security: Securing the Moment Intent Becomes Action

The security problem is no longer limited to what the model says. Runtime security decides what an AI agent is actually allowed to do before intent becomes action.

September 30, 2026·13 min read
Claude Code permission prompt versus --dangerously-skip-permissions YOLO mode
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claude --dangerously-skip-permissions: What It Does, and How to Get the Speed Without the Risk

What claude --dangerously-skip-permissions actually disables, real incidents it caused, and how to keep the speed without the risk using policies.

August 8, 2026·6 min read
Timeline of documented coding agent deletion incidents
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When Your Coding Agent Runs rm -rf: Real Incidents, and Why Prompts Are Not a Control

Five documented cases of AI coding agents deleting files and databases, why prompts and instructions failed to stop them, and what actually works.

August 8, 2026·6 min read
Why AI governance matters: autonomous agents need a control layer between capability and policy
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Why AI Governance Matters More Than You Think

As AI agents gain autonomy in production systems, the gap between capability and control becomes a critical business risk. Here's why governance is the missing layer.

July 15, 2026·4 min read
Shadow AI: The Hidden Risk in Your Organization
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Shadow AI: The Hidden Risk in Your Organization

Employees are using AI tools your IT team doesn't know about. Shadow AI is the new shadow IT, and the risks are bigger because the surface area is orders of magnitude larger.

July 8, 2026·4 min read

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