When AI agents delegate tasks to each other, who inherits which permissions?
cizinodusi · reddit · 2026-09-09
A Reddit discussion among agent builders: most agent security talk focuses on prompt injection, but the overlooked problem is permission granularity — an agent having access to files, browsers, tools, or other agents doesn't mean it should exercise that access at every workflow step.
The crux is delegation inheritance: if Agent A hands a task to Agent B, should B automatically get A's full permissions? The author leans toward delegated tasks carrying a much narrower permission set, arguing agent permissions need finer granularity than traditional user permissions. The thread polls practitioners: broad permissions with safeguards, strict least-privilege, or something in between.
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