The Agent Perimeter

The agent that had too many keys

August 8, 2026

A field report on least-privilege failures in production agent deployments.

Blast radius is the new metric

Autonomous agents inherit credentials the way interns inherit shared logins: quietly, and all at once.

The teams doing this well scope tokens per task, expire them in minutes, and log every tool call as if it were a shell session.

Perimeter thinking

The perimeter did not disappear. It moved inside the loop.

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