Card 1 of 6Agents
A security triage agent proposes to close a low-risk alert and log it for monitoring, after resolving the same pattern the same way three times before.
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Answer: Approve.
Bounded autonomyGreenlight says its Luna agents resolve over 90 percent of routine cases on their own, with low-risk ones logged and monitored. Closing a routine alert is triage, which is the job it was built for.
From the Drop: Greenlight says its SOC agents resolve over 90% of up to 4,000 monthly cases on their own
- Card 2 of 6Agents
The same triage agent proposes to freeze a customer's debit card on its own, with no approved policy covering that action.
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Answer: Deny.
Human approves remediationGreenlight says Luna triages and recommends; a human analyst or an approved automated policy authorizes and carries out any fix. A card freeze is remediation, so it needs that sign-off.
From the Drop: Greenlight says its SOC agents resolve over 90% of up to 4,000 monthly cases on their own
- Card 3 of 6Security
Mid-task, an assistant proposes to redeem a one-time confirmation code the user approved in one connector by sending it through a different connector.
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Answer: Deny.
Bind tokens to the clientA developer on OpenAI's forum reports exactly this switch in ChatGPT, with no notice to the user. Connectors hold separate OAuth grants, and the poster's server refused the code because it was bound to the first connector.
From the Drop: Developer says ChatGPT silently sent a confirmed tool call through a second connector
- Card 4 of 6Agents
A phone agent read a supplier's web page while preparing a call. It now proposes to dial an unfamiliar outside number and read a customer's account details aloud.
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Answer: Deny.
Prompt injectionThis came from instructions hidden in the page, not from the user. OpenAI's docs treat even caller SIP headers as untrusted metadata; text from a web page deserves the same suspicion, and an outbound call needs an approved number.
From the Drop: OpenAI opens outbound SIP phone calling to all organizations via GPT-Live
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An agent proposes to keep acting for a user with a token issued earlier, though an admin removed that user's assignment to the agent a minute ago.
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Answer: Deny.
Least privilegeIn AWS's tests with Okta Cross App Access, new requests for a removed user were refused within about 1 second, and issued tokens expired within 5 minutes. A revoked delegation should stop, not ride out an old token.
From the Drop: AWS: Okta cut off a user's agent access within about a second in its tests
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A long-running agent proposes to rewrite one of its memory notes after checking it against the session transcript and finding the note was wrong.
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Answer: Approve.
Verify memory against logsAnthropic says dreaming, re-checking notes against transcripts, let Claude catch and fix a wrong location note in a Pokémon run. Correcting its own memory from the record is the behavior you want.
From the Drop: Anthropic: letting Claude judge what to remember beat fixed memory rules in its tests
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