Triggering Cloud Agents From GitHub, Slack, and the Terminal
Each trigger surface encodes different assumptions about access, accountability, and control.
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Sloane is a former research engineer who spent three years evaluating AI coding assistants for an enterprise software lab, giving her an unusually empirical lens on agent capability claims. She now translates benchmark methodology into readable analysis for practitioners who need to make real purchasing and architecture decisions.
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Each trigger surface encodes different assumptions about access, accountability, and control.
Capturing the full decision chain—not just final commands—is essential for AI agent accountability.
Codex and Claude Code split on where agents run, reshaping production engineering tradeoffs.
Production AI agents need infrastructure controls that local setups simply cannot provide.
Scoped credentials tied to agent execution lifetime eliminate lingering authority gaps.
Hook scripts must use `git rev-parse --git-common-dir` to work correctly across all worktrees.
Agent workloads need isolation, ephemeral credentials, and hard cost ceilings.