Posit Assistant

Putting it all together in the assistant you’ll actually use, and keeping coding agents safe.

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Outline

• (15m) Posit Assistant
  • Demo _demos/23_demo_assistant: Posit Assistant explores data/airbnb-austin.csv with its read, write, and skill tools. The instructor starts the conversation, then everyone explores on their own.
  • Discussion: what keeps an assistant that runs code safe?
    • Permission prompts, sandboxing, and LLM-based safety checks
    • Reference: Help! My coding agent can run code
  • Free practice time in the tool attendees will actually use

Further reading

• Help! My coding agent can run code — sandboxing, permission prompts, and LLM-based safety checks.
• Auto mode knows it’s dangerous (and does it anyway) — a cautionary experiment with curl | sh installers.