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Practitioner-level guides on AI agent security, enterprise architecture, and modern engineering. Read online or download as PDF.

AI Agent SecurityJune 2026·45 min read read

The Firebreak Stack

Security Engineering for AI Coding Agents

Eight controls for containing coding agents before bad tool calls reach production.

Key topics

  • Why guardrails fail at the wrong abstraction layer
  • The Firebreak Stack — eight operational gates
  • Devcontainer reachability and scoped credentials
  • Egress proxy, stratified confirmation, and budgets
  • Deploy weekend, control plane, and proving each gate

More coming

Additional field guides on multi-agent orchestration, zero-trust identity, and event-driven systems are in progress.