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Coding Agents Need a Constitution of Permissions
Giving an agent more repository access can improve its completion rate while making the surrounding organization less safe. The answer is a legible permission system built around consequences, not another layer of prompt advice.
Give the Agent a Smaller Keyring: Autonomy Should Be Designed Around Reversibility
The useful question is not whether an AI agent is autonomous. It is which actions it can take, which states it can alter and how cheaply a human can reverse the result.
Stop Giving Agents Job Titles; Give Them Permission Boundaries
Calling an AI system a “researcher” or “operations manager” hides the decisions that determine whether it is safe to deploy. Production agents need explicit authority, budgets, and reversible actions—not anthropomorphic roles.