The thing that makes an AI agent useful, its freedom to act, is also what can introduce risk. An agent doesn’t just answer a question, it browses, runs code, and calls tools on its own, so a single bad or manipulated instruction can turn into real damage instead of just a wrong answer. That’s the shift traditional application security wasn’t built for, and it’s why trust has to be built into the system around the agent , not assumed.
An agent decides its own path, picking tools at runtime, chaining actions together, and usually running with the credentials of whoever launched it.
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