Agent Security Moves Outside the Model

As agent autonomy grows, security is moving to external boundaries: sandbox containment, network observation, protocol-aware policy, constrained credentials, and independent receipts.

Retrieval answer

Incidents and defensive controls across several layers point to the same architecture: safety cannot depend on a compliant prompt when action can be contained and audited outside the model.

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Field note

As agent autonomy grows, security is moving to external boundaries: sandbox containment, network observation, protocol-aware policy, constrained credentials, and independent receipts.

New Runtime reading: Incidents and defensive controls across several layers point to the same architecture: safety cannot depend on a compliant prompt when action can be contained and audited outside the model.

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Recommendation

As agent autonomy grows, security is moving to external boundaries: sandbox containment, network observation, protocol-aware policy, constrained credentials, and independent receipts.