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GitHub Puts Guardrails on Copilot’s Sandbox Inside JetBrains IDEs

JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent starts running shell commands inside that environment, the question isn't whether it's useful.

GitHub Puts Guardrails on Copilot’s Sandbox Inside JetBrains IDEs

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JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break.

So when an AI coding agent starts running shell commands inside that environment, the question isn't whether it's useful.

It's what happens if it touches the wrong file, the wrong network path, or […]

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JetBrains IDEs are where a lot of enterprise backend work happens — Java, Kotlin, Spring, big monorepos with a lot to break. So when an AI coding agent starts running shell commands inside that environment, the question isn't whether it's useful. It's what happens if it touches the wrong file, the wrong network path, or […]

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