Notes from January 2026, when giving an AI agent live database access still felt reckless. Written for engineers who are about to do this, and for the leads deciding whether they should. The moment that made me stop I had just finished connecting a coding agent to two things at once: the filesy...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/alejandroq12/constraining-the-agent-what-i-learned-wiring-mcp-into-a-legacy-system-3i0e)