My agent ran tests on a copy of its own repo and still hit the live database. How much of the environment do you pass to commands your agent runs?

Two of us are building a desktop agent that runs on a local model. Something happened a few days ago, and there's a part we still haven't decided on, so I'm asking here. We had the agent fix a bug in its own code. We didn't want it touching the install that was running, so we copied the whole repo…

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1. 2026-10-09 08:01 · r/AI_Agents
   My agent ran tests on a copy of its own repo and still hit the live database. How much of the environment do you pass to commands your agent runs?