I Run AI Agents With Full System Access. Here's What Makes It Safe Enough.

The guardrails question is real. If you give an LLM access to your infrastructure — actual file writes, actual service restarts, actual database queries — and it hallucinates a tool call or gets confused mid-task, you have a problem. A real one, not a theoretical risk. I know this because I've been running agents with real infrastructure access since February. Five project contexts, each with its own scope and capabilities. Dev handles code repos. Infra manages Docker stacks, reverse proxy confi