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Agents are only as good as the data they can work with. Mocked data misses edge cases. Shared staging gets corrupted. Production is off-limits. Ardent gives every agent run its own isolated copy of your real database: spun up in under 6 seconds, handed off as a connection URL, thrown away when the task is done.

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The pattern

# Create a branch for the agent task and capture its URL
AGENT_DATABASE_URL="$(ardent branch create agent-task --print-url)"
if [ -z "$AGENT_DATABASE_URL" ]; then
  echo "branch creation did not return a database URL" >&2
  exit 1
fi

# Hand the returned URL to your agent
# → $AGENT_DATABASE_URL

# Agent writes migrations, runs queries, tests against real data
# When it's done, clean up
ardent branch delete agent-task

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I'm working on [describe task]. Before making any database changes,
create an Ardent branch with `ardent branch create <branch-name> --print-url`,
use the returned connection URL for all database work, and delete
the branch when we're done. Never touch the main connection string.
No more giving agents production access. No more hand-maintained fixtures. Real data, safely isolated, every time.