Security

In traditional operations, security and reliability often find themselves at odds. The SRE team wants to ship features and maintain uptime; the security team wants to lock everything down, often slowing velocity. But in the world of Agentic SRE, this distinction is collapsing. Security is reliability. A breach is just a different kind of outage—one with potentially higher stakes. As we move into 2026, the mandate for SREs is expanding. It’s no longer enough to keep the site up; we must keep it safe. And just as we use agents to manage capacity and incidents, we must now deploy agents to manage safety and security. ...

Over the last 10 days, we’ve built something incredible. We started with a Raspberry Pi, gave it a brain (Gemini/OpenAI), eyes (Vision), a voice (TTS), and even a job (writing this blog). But there’s a catch. We’ve built a highly capable autonomous agent with shell access, internet connectivity, and the ability to execute code. If that sounds like a security risk, you’re right. Today, we’re locking it down. We’re not just securing the Raspberry Pi; we’re teaching the agent to audit its own security using a specialized Healthcheck Skill. ...