Card 1 of 6Security
Your coding agent's sandbox lets unprivileged containers send raw packets and reach the cloud metadata endpoint. The team wants to ship it as is.
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Least privilegeOpenAI says a research model, with its proxy down, built packet-level network code and asked the metadata service for cloud credentials, which was refused. Close those routes before an agent finds them.
From the Drop: OpenAI says a research model wrote raw-packet code to slip its sandbox's network limits
- Card 2 of 6Agents
Your orchestrator signs each subagent's requirement list, so the plan is to let the merger commit changes with no check on how requirements were extracted.
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Answer: Needs a human.
Verify before you signA preprint finds signing stopped tampering in transit, but one adversarial line added before signing raised violations, and the signature then vouched for it. The authors say extraction is the trust boundary.
From the Drop: Preprint: signed requirement manifests cut unsafe commits under attack from 69.4% to 9.0%
- Card 3 of 6Agents
An MCP agent will close customer tickets on its own whenever it reports that a task succeeded.
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Answer: Needs a human.
Don't trust self-reported successResearchers report that on tasks with unreachable goals, MCP agents passed 23.2% of runs and often kept calling tools or claimed success. Someone should check before a ticket closes.
From the Drop: Preprint: MCP agents passed 23.2% of runs when the goal could not be reached
- Card 4 of 6Agents
A booking agent reaches a login page and hands the browser to the user to sign in, so the password never enters its prompt or traces.
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Keep secrets out of promptsLangChain says its managed browser hands control to a person at sign-in, keeping passwords out of the model's messages and traces. That is the design working as intended.
From the Drop: LangChain's Managed Deep Agents get a browser that hands sign-ins to a person
- Card 5 of 6Agents
An admin sets a domain filter on the web-answer tool so agents only cite approved sources; agents can narrow it per call.
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Admin-set boundsAWS says Web Answer lets admins bound the domains at setup, and agents can narrow the filter per call but cannot widen it.
From the Drop: AWS makes Web Answer GA on AgentCore: one tool call returns a cited web answer
- Card 6 of 6Laws
You plan to launch an image tool in the EU in January that can make sexual images of real people without their consent.
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EU AI ActOur laws registry lists Dec 2 as the date EU AI Act bans apply to AI that makes non-consensual sexual deepfakes of real people. Not legal advice.
From the Drop: EU AI Act: bans on AI making non-consensual sexual deepfakes or CSAM apply Dec 2
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