Your AI Doesn't Need to Dig Around in Production Databases. It Needs Better Briefings.

I increasingly hear or read the advice to solve problems by querying MCP servers on production databases. Meanwhile, I&rsquo;m reading output from an AI agent that tried to use an MCP server of some sort. And the output is full of things that are obviously wrong/false/dangerous. It&rsquo;s expensive and dangerous to trust an AI Agent to query production freely, even with read-only access. You have…