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# Give the Agent Its Own Machine


- **Date:** Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026
- **Time:** 15:00–15:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Coding agents get useful the moment they can read files, run commands, and reach the network, and each of those is also a way for one bad step to cost you an afternoon or worse. This talk shows what it takes to run an agent at full capability inside a boundary you set, ending with a live setup you can recreate on your own laptop in minutes.

## Speaker

### [Dan Ndombe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@dan-ndombe-2)

Staff Developer Success Advocate


## Related talks at this congress

- [Making “Works on All Machines” Work for Agent Environments](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1917-making-works-on-all) — Michael Irwin
- [Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1795-agent-speedrun-idea) — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani
- [Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1794-agent-speedrun-idea) — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani
- [Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1695-give-the-agent-a) — Sachin Malhotra

## Watch remotely

Can’t make it to San José? Watch this session live with Pro. You also get:

- All full videos, bookmarks, and playlists
- World Congress livestreams

[See pricing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/pricing)

## Links

- [Get tickets](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress-north-america/tickets)