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Did you find a clean way to let the agent commit without giving it write access to the shared config?

Carlos (Bloqarl) asked the question in the title in a dev.to comment under his article about giving coding agents real repositories , and named the trap in the same breath: "I was treating the worktree as the boundary and it's only the checkout." The short answer is: not by guarding paths inside a…

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  1. 2026-10-31 07:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Did you find a clean way to let the agent commit without giving it write access to the shared config?

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