The Secure Harness: Shipping Production Code with AI Coding Agents($19.99Value)

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AI coding agents are already shipping production code. Most teams using them haven't updated their security model to match. The Secure Harness: Shipping Production Code with AI Coding Agents is a practical, plain-English guide to using Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and the agents that will come after them — without waking up to a bad Tuesday afternoon. It introduces the Secure Harness : an interlocking set of technical and organizational controls that lets agents do useful work inside defined boundaries you set, enforce, and audit. This is not a product comparison, not an OWASP walkthrough, and not an offensive security manual. It is a calm, opinionated look at how agentic development actually works, where it breaks, and what you have to build to make it safe enough for production. What you will learn: How AI coding agents really work, and how the AI-first workflow differs from the one you grew up with - A practical threat model for agentic development — prompt injection, excessive agency, supply chain risk - How to harden the local environment with sandboxes, permissions, hooks, and policy layers - How to evaluate, configure, and build secure MCP servers - How to reason about multi-agent systems and agent-to-agent communication - How to review agent-written code, release it safely, and maintain it over time - How to set organizational defaults so your team does not have to invent this themselves What you will get: 480 pages across four parts and nineteen chapters - 4 worked scenarios , written in the voice of an incident report, showing how the harness holds (and how it fails when pieces are missing) - 15 copy-pasteable reference artifacts — hook scripts, permission configurations, release gates, review checklists, policy one-pagers, MCP tool templates, and more - 4 appendices including a full glossary and annotated further-reading list - A unifying mental model — the Secure Harness — you can apply immediately, whether you are one developer on a laptop or a platform team setting defaults for the whole organization Who this book is for: Developers who want to move faster without sacrificing safety - Engineering leads and staff engineers building team-wide workflows - Security and platform teams setting defaults for the organization - Technical founders shipping whole products with agents - Curious technical readers — PMs, designers, executives — who want to understand what is actually happening under the hood Autonomy without boundaries is chaos. Autonomy inside a harness is infrastructure. This book is about building that harness.