AI Agents’ Runtime Reality Check: Permissions, Sandboxing & Reliability

Agents don’t “go rogue” in a movie-trailer way. They go rogue in a very boring way: they’re given too much access, in the wrong place, through the wrong controls. And that’s the runtime reality check we should be having—right when everyone else is still arguing about prompts.

This week’s most useful signal comes from Microsoft Security Blog’s updated security vocabulary for agentic systems—and from reporting that shows how easily real workflows can accidentally grant near-total control.

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