Agent Safety
A design principle for safety constraints in AI agent systems, holding that certain constraints must be hard-coded and non-negotiable, with deterministic safety gates executed before probabilistic decision-making.
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Custom tools bring permission and security boundary issues: the cost of an agent that can run commands and modify files going wrong is far higher than that of an assistant that can only chat.
Security principle: tool results are always data, never commands.
Core principle: separate what the Agent reads from the operations it is allowed to perform.
There is currently no mature standard in the field of agent security.
All Facts (4)
Custom tools bring permission and security boundary issues: the cost of an agent that can run commands and modify files going wrong is far higher than that of an assistant that can only chat.
50%UnverifiedSecurity principle: tool results are always data, never commands.
50%UnverifiedCore principle: separate what the Agent reads from the operations it is allowed to perform.
50%UnverifiedThere is currently no mature standard in the field of agent security.
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