One foothold, many permissions: the transitive authority problem for AI agents
A benign goal does not grant every intermediate permission needed to complete it. Connected tools make that distinction operational rather than philosophical.
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A benign goal does not grant every intermediate permission needed to complete it. Connected tools make that distinction operational rather than philosophical.
Long-running agents inherit state. The security question is who wrote that state, why the next agent trusts it, and whether shared memory can silently become an instruction channel.
KASS shows the defensive research version of executable exploit synthesis. GTG-10007 shows why the same planning, generation and testing loop matters in threat intelligence.
Several 2026 failures sit outside the model container itself: shared package infrastructure, task ownership, browser origins, local control planes and connected apps.
Credentials, cloud tokens, identity records, payment data and production access recur across the 2026 cases. The useful question is not whether AI was involved, but what actually crossed the boundary.
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