Let AI draft fixes, not silently redefine release authority.

Coding agents should make secure development faster, but they should not bypass review, mutate CI/CD workflows without oversight, expose secrets, or publish packages with broad credentials. Treat AI changes like high-speed pull requests that still need guardrails.

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Controls to establish before scaling coding agents.

Control 1

Approve where coding assistants may read, write, run tests, open pull requests, and touch secrets or build workflows.

Control 2

Require branch protection, code owners, required reviews, code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency review before AI-authored changes merge.

Control 3

Keep production credentials out of developer shells, local agents, repository tasks, and untrusted dependency install paths.

Control 4

Use disposable development containers for unfamiliar repositories, generated setup scripts, or supply-chain incident investigations.

Control 5

Ask AI to cite files, line numbers, tests, package metadata, advisories, and exploitability reasoning before accepting remediation guidance.

Control 6

Separate patch drafting from release authority; AI can propose changes, but humans and policy should approve production deployment.

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