# How I Stopped Babysitting My Coding Agent (With Dotfiles) | Percona Community

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**Created:** [May 5, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles-percona-community/40745 "2026-05-05T14:51:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![daniil.bazhenov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/daniil.bazhenov/32/62_2.png) [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles-percona-community/40745/1 "2026-05-05T14:51:07Z")

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Most developers at least try to use coding agents for development-related tasks, but babysitting LLMs and managing their permissions is no fun. Completely skipping permission checks is a dangerous idea on your main machine, and setting up containers or VMs for sandboxing is a pain. Can we do better?

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://percona.community/blog/2026/05/05/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles](https://percona.community/blog/2026/05/05/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles)