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Least Authority for Coding Agents: Permissions by Task, Not by Role

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An agent may be capable of editing a release workflow, deleting an environment, or publishing a package. That capability does not answer whether the current task needs any of those powers. The safer design question is smaller: for this episode, which exact reads and writes are necessary, against wh…

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  1. 2026-10-01 18:25 · DEV Community — AI
    Least Authority for Coding Agents: Permissions by Task, Not by Role

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