Topic

AI agent authorization

The design discipline of deciding which actions an autonomous software agent may take by itself, which require a person's approval, and which are refused outright, with the decision enforced outside the model.

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A seven-rung risk ladder pushes agent permissions out of the prompt and into an authorization layer

Hossein Hezami's ladder runs observe to destroy and gives sensitive reads a class of their own. The interesting part is the TypeScript, where risk arrives as a field on the request and someone other than the model has to set it.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+16
Incentives22
Confidence44