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Capability-Based Security

Security model in which authority is an unforgeable, signed token that can be delegated and attenuated, drawn from operating systems research.

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A static denylist stopped one more prompt injection than no protection in a coding-agent study

Bouras, Dai and Mechtaev found a static denylist let 46 of 75 prompt injections execute in a coding agent, against 3 under preflight-scoped capabilities. A same-day Google report of malware stealing OIDC tokens from GitHub Actions runners puts the outer limit on an agent in the CI job's permissions.

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