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I gave my AI agent one harmless permission. It became a backdoor for everyone.

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How one write path in a helpful bot turned into a permission problem, and the small service I built to close it. The agent I built an ops agent at work. You ask it what's wrong with a service and it comes back in about fifteen seconds with: error rate and latency pod restarts and Kubernetes events…

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  1. 2026-09-24 20:42 · DEV Community — AI
    I gave my AI agent one harmless permission. It became a backdoor for everyone.

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