Harden agent-built paths before strangers hit the app
Agent diffs can look finished on your laptop and still leak money or personal data the first week strangers arrive. Before you buy clicks, pull secrets out of chat, force real sign-in on every path that changes data, and install a review kill switch that does not wait on another agent turn. Keep the workflow for now — prove the wrap first.
Hardening here means the agent-built app keeps shipping while you lock the risky journeys. Secrets leave the chat. Paid and personal-data paths demand a real signed-in session — not a laptop-only demo. Watching catches a bad merge. A review flag or prior tag turns the release off without prompting the model again. Exit pages wait until that wrap fails.
When the agent wrap is still honest
Stay on the solo loop when the risk is still nameable
If secrets still ride in the agent thread, or a stranger can open another user’s records from a laptop-only session, you are past a wrap. Call migrate or to-production instead of dressing an exit as hardening.
Agent paths that touch money or personal data
Those journeys need server-side permission — not a UI filter the agent left behind. A hidden nav link is not a gate.
Laptop-only sessions on the paid path
Demo logins that only work on your machine fail the week ads start. Stranger-like accounts must complete the journey on a shared URL.
A bad merge needs a review kill switch
A flag, a prior tag, or a blocked release track. “We will ask the agent to revert it” is not an off switch.
Secrets stuck in chat end the stay path
Rotate every key that touched the thread or a local env paste. If they cannot leave the generated tree, hardening is the wrong page.
The agent-path wrap week
Lock paid journeys before the next bulk agent merge
Keep the current workflow. Prove chat secrets out, real sessions, watching, and a review off switch before ads.
01
Inventory agent-built journeys that take money or personal data
Start there. Marketing pages wait.
02
Drain secrets from chat and local pastes
Rotate anything the agent thread or a laptop env file ever held.
03
Add watching plus a review kill switch
Know when the primary journey fails. Stop a bad release without waiting on a model.
04
Decide stay vs leave from what broke
If stranger tests still fail after the wrap, migrate is the honest next page.
How to
How to harden agent-built paths before strangers
Lock risk on the current workflow. Stay until evidence says leave.
Step 01
List agent-built journeys that take money or personal data
Those are the lock targets — not the demo screens the agent polished last.
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What is the minimum before paid traffic on an agent-built MVP?
Secrets out of chat, real sign-in on every path that changes data, watching on the primary journey, and a review off switch you can flip without another agent turn. Polished screens the agent shipped are not the minimum.
How do chat secrets and laptop-only sessions get fixed?
Treat the agent thread as a leak. Rotate every key that appeared there. Force stranger-like accounts through the paid path on a shared URL — never only on your laptop session. Kill demo bypasses the agent left in.
What should we watch on agent-built paths before ads?
Primary journey failures, sign-in errors after a bulk agent merge, and spikes right after release. Watching without a review off switch is only half the lock.
When is agent-path hardening the wrong call?
When secrets cannot leave chat, when laptop-only sessions are the only way the app works, or when you cannot name which agent-built paths touch money. Then migrate or to-production is the honest page — not another wrap week.
Keep the agent workflow for now. Lock the risky paths first.
Bring which agent-built journeys take money, where chat secrets still live, and how you would stop a bad release without another agent turn. We lock before we talk migrate.