{"product_id":"the-secure-harness-kubilay-tunca-9798195719104","title":"The Secure Harness: Shipping Production Code with AI Coding Agents","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAI coding agents are already shipping production code. Most teams using them haven't updated their security model to match.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secure Harness: Shipping Production Code with AI Coding Agents\u003c\/i\u003e is a practical, plain-English guide to using Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and the agents that will come after them - without waking up to a bad Tuesday afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt introduces the \u003cb\u003eSecure Harness\u003c\/b\u003e: an interlocking set of technical and organizational controls that lets agents do useful work inside defined boundaries you set, enforce, and audit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a product comparison, not an OWASP walkthrough, and not an offensive security manual. It is a calm, opinionated look at how agentic development actually works, where it breaks, and what you have to build to make it safe enough for production.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat you will learn: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow AI coding agents really work, and how the AI-first workflow differs from the one you grew up with\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA practical threat model for agentic development - prompt injection, excessive agency, supply chain risk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to harden the local environment with sandboxes, permissions, hooks, and policy layers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to evaluate, configure, and build secure MCP servers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to reason about multi-agent systems and agent-to-agent communication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to review agent-written code, release it safely, and maintain it over time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to set organizational defaults so your team does not have to invent this themselves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWhat you will get: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e480 pages\u003c\/b\u003e across four parts and nineteen chapters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e4 worked scenarios\u003c\/b\u003e, written in the voice of an incident report, showing how the harness holds (and how it fails when pieces are missing)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e15 copy-pasteable reference artifacts\u003c\/b\u003e - hook scripts, permission configurations, release gates, review checklists, policy one-pagers, MCP tool templates, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e4 appendices\u003c\/b\u003e including a full glossary and annotated further-reading list\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA unifying mental model - the Secure Harness - you can apply immediately, whether you are one developer on a laptop or a platform team setting defaults for the whole organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWho this book is for: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevelopers who want to move faster without sacrificing safety\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngineering leads and staff engineers building team-wide workflows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecurity and platform teams setting defaults for the organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTechnical founders shipping whole products with agents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurious technical readers - PMs, designers, executives - who want to understand what is actually happening under the hood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutonomy without boundaries is chaos. Autonomy inside a harness is infrastructure. This book is about building that harness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kubilay Tunca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195719104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d","brand":"Kubilay Tunca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801475985663,"sku":"9798195719104","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-secure-harness-kubilay-tunca-9798195719104","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}