Ask your agent to secure the application before deployment and regularly audit it afterward. Check authentication, permissions, exposed services, dependencies, and common vulnerabilities. If you don’t know how to phrase your prompt, ask your agent!
Never expose API keys in your frontend or repository. Add usage limits, budgets, rate limits, and alerts to paid APIs and AI services so a bug—or unexpected popularity—doesn’t create a huge bill.
Don’t over-engineer. If your audience is one person, build for one person. Ship the MVP first, learn what actually matters, and only add complexity when you need it.
Frontend skills can dramatically improve what an agent builds. Use resources like UI-Skills.com and ask the agent to create multiple design variations before choosing a direction. Don’t accept the first generic AI-generated interface.
Get it online. Cloudflare is a great default for domains, DNS, security, tunnels, storage, Workers, and application infrastructure. Let your agent handle the deployment and configuration wherever possible.
