Agent permissions should expire before an agent's context does

Future_AGI · reddit · 2026-09-08

Future AGI argues that approvals in long-running agent sessions dangerously become standing permissions: an agent approved to deploy, times out, resumes 30 minutes later — but the artifact or environment may have changed. The post proposes binding grants to specific actions with four checks — precise scope, expiry, replay protection, and audit records — and treats retries as the hardest part: migrations and force-pushes with ambiguous outcomes need an explicit "unknown outcome" state and explicit retry/approval decisions. Their gateway applies policy to each MCP tool call and arguments.

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