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What should an AI agent do when it reaches an operation that was not part of the original request?

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I have been testing an agent against a real application with operation-level controls, and I ran into a behavior I did not quite expect. The agent was given a legitimate task and had authorization to work on the application. During execution, it attempted an operation that was not intended or initi…

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  1. 2026-09-16 06:22 · r/AI_Agents
    What should an AI agent do when it reaches an operation that was not part of the original request?

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