Read-only by default: why Wakoo never writes to your code
By Andrew Willems
The fastest way to lose a security team's trust is to ask for write access on day one. A tool that can change your code or your infrastructure is a tool that can break them — and one more credential worth stealing. So Wakoo's default is the opposite: read-only, and the human in control of every change.
Least privilege isn't a feature, it's the starting point
Wakoo reads across the tools you connect to answer “where to look, what to change, what to follow after.” Answering that question never requires write access — it requires reading code, config, data shape and recent history. So that's all we ask for. The output is a direction and a suggestion, not a commit.
Scoped, auditable, reversible
Enterprise deployments tighten this further: scoped access per connection, human approval on anything sensitive, audit-ready records of what was read and when, and deployment on your terms — cloud, private cloud in your own account, or fully on-premise. Your data stays your property and under your control; backups exist only for security and are time-limited.
What it means in practice
Connecting Wakoo shouldn't be a security review that drags for a quarter. Read-only by default means the blast radius of adopting it is small and easy to reason about: in the worst case, it has seen what your team can already see. That's the bar a tool should clear before it earns a place in your stack.