20 questions to answer before letting agents touch production data
Then_Respect_1964 · reddit · 2026-10-20
The author shares a readiness index distilled from internal review questions used before taking agents GA at a previous job, now cleaned up for reuse. It covers identity, data protection, audit, ops, and autonomy with 20 questions (10 minutes), producing a level from "experimental" to "autonomous ready" plus the top 3 gaps to fix. New questions draw on real agent incidents from this year: accidental database deletions, agents reading unapproved data, and exposed MCP servers with raw SQL tools.
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