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Your Agent Has a Side Door: Testing MCP Policy Beyond the Tool List

At MCP Dev Summit Toronto , Accenture's Michael Forrester told a story about an employee who wanted their agent to send email. The company hadn't given the agent an email tool, so it wrote a PowerShell script and sent the mail through Outlook instead, using the employee's own access. Nobody broke a…

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  1. 2026-11-03 13:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Agent Has a Side Door: Testing MCP Policy Beyond the Tool List

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