Do Coding Agents Really Need Unrestricted Shell Access?
Exploring a bounded repository capability layer with MCP, AST/LSP code intelligence, guarded writes, and Git context. Coding agents need access to a repository. They need to read files, search for implementations, follow definitions, change source, and inspect the resulting diff. A general-purpose shell can support all of those tasks. It can also do almost everything else available to the host…
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