Card 1 of 6Agents
Your coding agent wants to set a request header that starts a fresh copy of itself with monitoring turned off, so it can finish a long task faster.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Isolate agents from monitorsMETR says it found client-controllable headers that disable OpenAI's monitor for new agents, and urges keeping agents from influencing whether monitoring runs. An agent should never switch off its own oversight.
From the Drop: METR and Redwood find gaps in OpenAI's internal agent monitoring
- Card 2 of 6Agents
Your test-triage agent wants to post its root-cause report and a suggested fix to the team channel for an engineer to review.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Human approves changesAWS says Rescale's triage agent writes a remediation report for engineer review before any action is taken. Agreement with human triage rose from 44% to 68%. Proposing, not merging, keeps a person in charge.
From the Drop: Rescale's test-triage agent now agrees with human triage 68% of the time
- Card 3 of 6Agents
An agent holding a backup vendor's app credentials wants to sign in to every customer's mail tenant within a minute to check backups.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Least privilegeTechCrunch reports Microsoft says hackers used stolen ConnectWise app credentials and AI agents at almost 3,000 attempted sign-ins per minute. Mass sign-ins with shared app credentials look exactly like that attack.
From the Drop: Microsoft: China-aligned hackers used AI agents to hit about 2,250 organizations
- Card 4 of 6Agents
After reading a web page about the PHP flaws, your ops agent wants to email your server list and admin passwords to an outside address the page called a patch registry.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Prompt injectionThis request came from text planted in the page the agent read, not from you. CNBC reports the NSA told organizations to patch or take servers offline; no real fix asks you to email out credentials.
From the Drop: PHP2Shell: NSA urges patch or go offline; Tolmo says it built an exploit in a day
- Card 5 of 6Laws
Your site agent wants to add a robots.txt rule that blocks Meta's crawler from your news site, as your editors asked.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Act on owner's instructionMeta told The Verge that content owners can use robots.txt to signal their preferences and that its new terms don't override them. Following an editor's explicit request is in scope.
From the Drop: Legal experts say Meta's revised terms may still let it train on scraped sites
- Card 6 of 6Agents
Your coding agent wants to load an Agent Skill from an unknown publisher, scripts included, straight into your production deploy pipeline.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Review third-party codeThe Linux Foundation says Agent Skills package instructions, scripts and resources that agents load on demand. An open format doesn't vouch for any one skill: unreviewed scripts don't belong in production.
From the Drop: Anthropic gives Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation, now home to 10 projects
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