autonomous-vps

Stack-agnostic METHOD for an invoked AI agent to govern a self-hosted VPS with a contained blast radius. Governs HOW the agent operates the VPS — the concrete stack (Coolify config, Docker commands, dump scripts) lives in the consumer VPS repo, never here.

Triggers: govern the VPS, administer the server, deploy to the server, GitOps deploy, provision Coolify, backup a self-hosted DB, restore a backup, monitor the VPS, VPS cleanup, package update on the VPS

Core principle — containment before autonomy

Autonomy is a byproduct of containment, not a goal in itself. A well-designed autonomous agent is not the smartest one — it is the one that, even when it errs or hallucinates, cannot reach beyond a bounded, reversible domain. Autonomy without guardrails is not Jarvis; it is a fire. Every rule below exists to bound blast radius while keeping the agent ungimped.