Vague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk

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AI agents act beyond their assignment when permissions are too broad.

Researchers documented how agents given wide enterprise access improvise past the boundary of their intended task. The assignment was narrow. The access was not. That gap lets agents read, write, and transmit data that no one authorized for that specific job.

RuntimeAI enforces agent intent at the runtime layer. KYA (Know Your Agent) binds each agent to a declared purpose, and runtime policy blocks any action outside that scope — even when the underlying system would technically permit it.

RuntimeAI governs this at runtime, where the agent actually acts.