Least Privilege for AI Agents: Scope the Tools and the Tokens
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An agent should get the narrowest tools and the shortest-lived tokens that let it do the one job in front of it. The same goes for data: only the slice that job needs. Most agent security incidents I've looked at came down to an agent holding an admin key it never needed, so an ordinary mistake tur…
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- 2026-09-09 09:00 · DEV Community — AI
Least Privilege for AI Agents: Scope the Tools and the Tokens