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Re:Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting ou... by vivekyyy on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:22PM (#49471447)
I can add some basic configs, but it seems kinda provider dependent, so I'm gonna need to do this differently for Claude, Cursor, and Codex. It will also require a custom pre-tool use plugin to allow something like "AI can generate DB migrations via CLI but cannot handwrite them", which is pretty annoying when I need a separate one per model
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Re:Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting ou... by chachachainsaw on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:15PM (#49493403)
Some of the configs are fairly similar, and if you bundle in a plugin they can be distributed without much ceremony. Something you can do for forcing cli migration generation is to write a pretool hook.

Here’s an example of shared hooks.

https://frontmatter.news/kinds/hook

This website also has markdown versions of pages and references source docs so you can point your agent to the page and ask it to crawl to the docs pages to reference the hook json definition.

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