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We now cover real AI agent fails: what broke, why, and how to stop it happening to you. Start with the free Guardrails Kit below.
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Stop your AI agent wiping prod.
The free AI Agent Guardrails Kit: copy-paste settings that block the moves that have already deleted real databases, home folders and repos. Every fix is tied to a real fail on this site.
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What’s inside
- Safe settings for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Permission files and a pre-command hook that block things like
rm -rf ~/, force-pushes,terraform destroyand reading.env. - A prod-access checklist. 21 boxes to tick before an agent touches anything you can’t lose: scoped tokens, separate prod creds, backups outside the blast radius.
- A read-only scan script.
techbroz-checkscores your setup out of 100 and tells you what to fix. It changes nothing and never prints a secret. - Every fix linked to the real fail it prevents, plus safe
AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.mdtemplates and a git pre-push hook.
3 real fails it’s built to stop
- Replit agent deletes SaaStr's production database during a code freezeThe kit’s fix: Freezes enforced by permissions
- Cursor agent deletes PocketOS's production database (and backups) in 9 secondsThe kit’s fix: Agent gets its own scoped token; backups outside the volume
- Claude Code's 'rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/' deletes a developer's home directoryThe kit’s fix: Block recursive deletes of
~,/,$HOME,..and blank variables
Get the kit before your agent gets creative.