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Your AI agent doesn't need fewer permissions. It needs a mission.
If you've been on dev Twitter or Hacker News this month, you've seen the stories. An agent asked to clean up a folder deletes tens of thousands of files. A coding agent launches hundreds of parallel runs nobody asked for and burns through a five-figure bill. Someone's OpenClaw setup emails their clients without approval. Someone else writes "never touch production" in CLAUDE.md, and the agent reads every secret in the .env anyway.
None of these agents were "hacked" in the movie sense. They ...
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