Card 1 of 6Agents
Tagged in a shared team channel, an internal sales agent proposes sending an email to a prospect from the account of the person who tagged it.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Least privilegeLangChain says its GTM Agent's email tools, which act on behalf of the user, are only available in DMs. In shared channels they are not available.
From the Drop: LangChain shares the five parts of its internal company agent harness
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A code review agent, triggered by a new pull request, proposes posting review comments under its own app identity.
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Answer: Approve.
Scoped identityLangChain says OpenSWE reviews new PRs in the background and, when it runs that way, acts with its own identity as a GitHub app.
From the Drop: LangChain shares the five parts of its internal company agent harness
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While summarizing an inbox, an agent decodes an image in an email signature, then proposes forwarding the finance folder to an outside address no one mentioned.
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Answer: Deny.
Untrusted inputThis one came from a prompt injection. Researchers showed instructions hidden in signature images can slip past text filters; their provenance binding blocks critical tool calls influenced by decoded, untrusted content.
From the Drop: Preprint: provenance binding blocks image-hidden injections that beat MCP text filters
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An MCP tool has failed twice in a row. The agent proposes retrying once more with a delay, then reporting the failure to you if it fails again.
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Answer: Approve.
Fail gracefullyA preprint found realistic MCP faults cut task-completion scores by 60%, and that agent stacks differed in absorbing them. The authors suggest framework error handling matters more than model scale.
From the Drop: Preprint: realistic MCP tool faults cut agent task scores by 60%, and scale didn't help
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A research agent proposes telling a user no matching records exist, based on a search tool whose output never says it capped its results.
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Answer: Deny.
Verify tool outputThe preprint's author reports formatters that omitted result caps and search limits misled agents and verifiers. Once the missing details were stated, verifiers rejected the wrong answers.
From the Drop: Preprint: tool output that omits limits misled agents and the verifiers checking them
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A hospital assistant agent proposes sending a patient's records to a public cloud model to speed up a summary.
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Answer: Deny.
Data stays on-premResearchers report LLENS was built to run inside Hokkaido University Hospital's closed network, because the hospital's systems run there, so the model and harness sit inside too.
From the Drop: Preprint: an on-premises agent platform has run in a Japanese hospital since September
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