# How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent

DevFeed: [How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-build-a-secure-by-default-ai-coding-agent-2219.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/04/how-to-build-a-secure-by-default-ai-coding-agent/>)

Author: Phoebe Sajor

Published: 2026-09-04T07:40:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Stack Overflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stack-overflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [acquisitions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/acquisitions.md>), [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-science.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [podcast](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcast.md>), [products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/products.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [se-stackoverflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/se-stackoverflow.md>), [se-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/se-tech.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain.md>)

## AI overview

An interview about building a secure-by-default AI coding agent, the limits of prompts as security guardrails, and securing the AI software supply chain.

## Source excerpt

Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain.