Team-shared AI agent permissions: a Slack bot quietly hands everyone its database access
Careless_Love_3213 · reddit · 2026-10-22
A Reddit post highlights an under-discussed problem in team settings: once a Slack bot agent can read your database, anyone who can talk to the bot inherits all of its permissions.
The author notes this gets worse when agents hold personal credentials—often just for convenience, or because platforms only support personal logins/tokens—and argues this is a big reason Anthropic and OpenAI have avoided multiplayer agents. With independent-entity agents like Grok Bot and Muse on the rise, the thread debates how agent permissions should work: team-level RBAC, context-based dynamic scoping, and audit logging.
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