AI coding agents are useful long before a repository is truly ready for them. The risky moment is not when an agent reads code. It is when it can edit files, run state-changing commands, or prepare a change that looks plausible enough to merge.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/agentkitstudio/a-5-minute-preflight-before-giving-an-ai-coding-agent-write-access-18kb)