Chapter 8: Production Operations and Security

Welcome to Chapter 8: Production Operations and Security. In this part of OpenCode Tutorial: Open-Source Terminal Coding Agent at Scale, you will build an intuitive mental model first, then move into concrete implementation details and practical production tradeoffs.

This chapter turns OpenCode from a local assistant into an operational platform component.

Production Checklist

• explicit command and file-edit policies
• traceable audit logs for agent actions
• model/provider fallback strategy
• regular dependency and key-rotation cadence
• rollback path for failed agent-generated changes

Metrics to Track

Area	Metrics
quality	accepted patch rate, rollback rate
safety	blocked high-risk commands, policy violations
efficiency	time-to-first-useful-patch
reliability	provider failure rate, retry rate

Incident Classes

Incident	First Response
unsafe command suggestion	block + review policy drift
provider outage	route to fallback model profile
broad incorrect edits	revert patch set and narrow scope

Source References

• OpenCode Releases
• OpenCode Docs

Summary

You now have an operations baseline for running OpenCode in serious development environments.

How These Components Connect

flowchart TD
    A[CI/CD Pipeline] --> B[OpenCode Agent]
    B --> C[Audit Logging]
    B --> D[Permission Policies]
    D --> E[Tool Allowlist]
    C --> F[Log Store]
    B --> G[Error Recovery]
    G --> H[Retry or Abort]