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What I lock down before letting a coding agent run commands on my laptop

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GitHub made local sandboxing for Copilot generally available this week, in the CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code Agent Host sessions. Commands the agent starts run with restricted access to files, network and credentials, based on a policy you set. I've been letting agents run commands locally for a…

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  1. 2026-10-08 04:54 · DEV Community — AI
    What I lock down before letting a coding agent run commands on my laptop

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