Treat your AI agent like infrastructure, or don't run it.

Everyone's hyped about autonomous agent runtimes. “Your own 24/7 AI employee.” “Infinite leverage.” Here's the part no one's saying out loud: you're giving an autonomous agent real system access, and most people are doing it unsafely.

If you're running this on your personal laptop, stop.

Shell access plus tools plus filesystem means your SSH keys, passwords, browser sessions and personal files are all in scope. Run it on a dedicated VPS, AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, whichever. Fresh user. No personal credentials. No shared keys. Anything else is reckless.

Minimum viable safety

• Deploy on a new VPS, never your own device
• Enable Docker sandboxing for all tools
• Lock down DM and pairing policies, no public access
• Require approval for exec / shell tools
• Use gateway auth tokens or private networking (Tailscale)
• Keep secrets out of plaintext configs
• Run a deep security audit before trusting it

If you're going to run an AI agent with real access, treat it like infrastructure, or don't run it at all.