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What is your agent allowed to fix on your server by itself?
An agent that patches your server by itself needs a mandate. This is how you decide which sources it trusts, what it is allowed to do on its own and what it leaves to you.
An agent that monitors and updates your server by itself sounds reassuring. Until you wonder what it is allowed to touch while you are asleep. In the previous article you read how Tom Verheyden forwarded me a warning about new security vulnerabilities. And how my Webmaster agent then built two skills and an automation in about twenty-five minutes, which run twice a day.
Here you can see how that works, so you can adopt the principle for what you have online yourself. I will leave out my own settings. Copy the starting prompt at the bottom of this article, and let your agent make an inventory of your own server first.
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How to help build a stronger internet together
Did you put something online yourself after a workshop? After a week full of security leaks, you can read here how an agent guards your server for you, including the prompt.
Last night, Tom Verheyden forwarded me an email from his hosting provider. It warned about a series of security leaks that became known this week. It was about even more security risks related to PHP, about Node.js and about eMudhra, a certificate authority whose keys were stolen. Tom added one line himself:
'Hmmm... it does not exactly stop with just PHP.'
With a half-awake head, I read that this morning with my coffee. I was awake immediately, and that was not because of the coffee. My first thought went to you. Perhaps you put something online yourself after a workshop on Claude, AI Agents or Vibe Coding: a little tool, a small app, a website. Then this news is actually about you too.
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