Last week a developer I know ran a routine refactor through a coding agent on a free remote server. The agent finished, ...

Last week a developer I know ran a routine refactor through a coding agent on a free remote server. The agent finished, the diff looked clean, and the commit was pushed. Three days later someone noticed the commit author was the developer's personal name and email, and the run directory contained a .env file with a staging database password. Nothing was exploited, but nothing had to be. The damage was the assumption that a free server behaves like a laptop.Here is my position: when you accept a free server for agent work, the model is not the risk and the token quota is not the constraint. The boundary between your machine and the remote host is the risk, and most agent workflows treat that boundary as if it did not exist.MonkeyCode's open-source agent project makes this concrete because it bundles two things that are usually sold separately: free model access with a 10 million token allowance as of this writing, and a free server option. Disclosure: This article was prepared as part o...