System Prompts Are Not Access Control: Building Secure AI Employee Architectures
Mahmoud_Zalt · x · 2026-08-14
A developer points out that if unauthorized data enters an LLM's context window, your security model has fundamentally failed. System prompts are not a replacement for proper access control.
In their Sistava platform, which provides AI employees for solo founders, the team filters permissions at the database layer before any retrieval begins. This approach ensures that AI agents are strictly restricted by security boundaries early in the process, offering a valuable security paradigm for building enterprise-grade AI agents.
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