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Building Guardrails for an Autonomous Coding Agent on a Real Repo

A production engineering guide to building safety guardrails for autonomous AI coding agents in 2026. Learn AST boundary validation, Git worktree sandboxing, and TypeScript gate code.

Sachin Sharma
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Aug 1, 2026
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Building Guardrails for an Autonomous Coding Agent on a Real Repo
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A production engineering guide to building safety guardrails for autonomous AI coding agents in 2026. Learn AST boundary validation, Git worktree sandboxing, and TypeScript gate code.

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Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma

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