Are you letting agents run infra tools / scripts yet?

Posted by shashahchk 10 hours ago

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Curious how people are using AI agents in their devops/infra workflows.

For example: • running migrations • deploying services • provisioning infra

Or are you mostly keeping AI in the “code generation” lane?

Also curious if anyone is using MCP servers from tools like Supabase or Vercel.

Would love to hear how you are shipping today.

Comments

Comment by pmf_hunter 1 hour ago

Running 6 persistent agents on a VPS that handle business ops - not just code gen. They do market research, content creation, video scripts, knowledge management. Each agent has its own memory, tools, and instructions.

For infra specifically: agents can run shell commands, manage Docker, deploy via git. The key insight was giving them narrow permissions per role rather than full root access. The research agent can read logs but can't deploy. The content agent can write files but can't touch infra.

Biggest risk isn't agents breaking things - it's agents confidently doing the wrong thing without telling you. So every destructive action requires confirmation, and all changes go through trash instead of rm.

Haven't used MCP servers much - direct tool access through the orchestration layer turned out to be simpler and more reliable.

Comment by fallonshoulders 4 hours ago

I give them full access. Ising mostly skills, havent really found a need a for mcp yet

Comment by shashahchk 1 hour ago

Got it. Is this mostly for local testing? How are you handling deployments right now without MCP? For example, are you using the Supabase dashboard or something similar?

Comment by verdverm 9 hours ago

Why do they need to? This is not how devops typically works when done well

Just have them help with IaC

Comment by shashahchk 6 hours ago

Definitely not a need, we agree good devops doesn't require AI. Just curious given the increased popularity of vibecoded projects whether deployment via MCPs is becoming a thing.