Balancing speed and safety: A control framework for AI coding agents

AI coding agents are part of the developer toolchain. Tools like Kiro and Claude Code generate features, tests, and code refactors from natural-language prompts. A single agent can open dozens of pull requests (PRs) across your repositories in an afternoon. That productivity comes with a trade-off: agents optimize for task completion at machine speed with no understanding of your organization’s risk. Through protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agents also reach…