Letting Claude and Cursor Provision Infrastructure: 7 Platforms That Give Your Security Team Audit Trails and Policy Guardrails
Blog post from Qovery
AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor should not receive direct cloud credentials; instead, they should request narrowly scoped actions through APIs or MCP servers connected to platforms that retain credentials, enforce policies before execution, require approvals where necessary, and produce immutable audit logs. The proposed governance model separates agents as requesters from platforms as executors, using dedicated machine identities, least-privilege and short-lived access, deny-by-default policy rules, human approval for production or destructive changes, environment isolation, cost controls, and SIEM-exportable records correlated with cloud-native logs. Spacelift, Env0, and HCP Terraform with Sentinel are positioned as Terraform and infrastructure-as-code orchestrators, while Open Policy Agent provides reusable policy decisions, Port supplies a governed self-service action catalog, and Qovery focuses on deploying application environments in organizations’ own cloud or Kubernetes accounts. The article recommends beginning with read-only agent access, progressing to ephemeral non-production environments, and only later allowing agents to submit production change requests subject to policy and human approval, with scope expanded only when teams can reliably reconstruct who requested a change, what policy allowed it, and what resources changed.
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