Homework — Audit Your AI Tooling
~30 minutes · one audit of your own machine
Produce a table listing every AI-related component currently installed on your workstation. Use the columns: Tool / Reads / Writes / Net / Exec / Telemetry / Verdict (Keep / Restrict / Remove). Aim for at least 5 entries. It's OK if your machine doesn't have many — for this homework, add 3 hypothetical tools you are considering.
Do not open answer.html until you have filled in your own table. The worked reference is there to check your reasoning, not to seed it.
Your AI tooling blast-radius table
Walk the five categories from the theory (IDE extensions, CLI agents, MCP servers, local model runners, browser extensions) and list what you find. Add hypothetical rows for tools you are considering. Fill every cell — "unknown" is a valid entry and an action item.
| Tool | Reads | Writes | Net | Exec | Telemetry | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ Self-check: every row has all seven cells filled, you covered all five categories, and the Verdict column reflects your actual intended next action — not wishful thinking.