A team gave its agents production DB access and now cannot audit them
Alessandro_Lena_410 · reddit · 2026-07-22
- An engineering team built several internal agents for ticket triage, reporting, and nightly reconciliation.
- To ship quickly, they gave the agents broad service credentials, including read/write access to a production database.
- The author is now worried because there is no real ownership, offboarding, or audit trail comparable to what a human employee would have.
- The question is what a sensible operational pattern looks like beyond the obvious advice to use short-lived tokens.
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