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Template, the mandate for your server agent
You have a website or an app online, and you would like your agent to help maintain it. Updates, leaks, certificates, that sort of thing. But you also want to sleep soundly while it is at work. For that you need a mandate. That is one file that says what your agent is allowed to solve by itself and when. And it also says what it always leaves to you.
This template is that file, with blank spaces. You fill it in in fifteen minutes, or you let your agent interview you first.
Start with the interview
If you do not want to start with a blank page, let your agent ask the questions first. It probably knows your server better than you do already. But what it is allowed to do, you still decide yourself. And while you answer its questions, you will automatically notice what you had actually never thought about.
Paste this into a conversation with your agent
I want you to help maintain my server, but first we will write a mandate together: a file that says what you are allowed to do yourself and what not. Do not change anything on the server yet. First ask me questions, one at a time, about these topics: which sources you can believe, which updates you can do yourself, at what times, how you roll back if something breaks, what you never do, and what you always present to me. Ask further questions if my answer remains vague. Then write the mandate in Markdown and show it to me before you save it.As a Member you get the full template below to fill in yourself. That also includes the question you use to test whether your agent really understands its mandate. And the emergency brake that you should add right away.
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