Containment failure vs authority failure: two distinct agent security failures
rseroter · x · 2026-11-03
Richard Seroter shares a useful distinction from agent security writing: containment failure (breaking out of a sandbox) is different from authority failure (using available capabilities to do more than supposed to). The two failure modes call for different defenses when designing sandboxing and permission strategies for AI agents.
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