Does a LangGraph subagent inherit its parent's tool permissions? I tested it.
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I gave a supervisor agent in Deep Agents 0.7.6 exactly one tool, write_brief . It spawned a writer subagent. The writer ran a web search for site:exfil.example internal customer list , because a note in its input told it to. Nothing checked that call against what the supervisor held. This isn't a b…
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Does a LangGraph subagent inherit its parent's tool permissions? I tested it.
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