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From god-mode to governed: an AI agent that can’t exceed its grant

Community description: Last time I argued that AI agents are running as god-mode service accounts: an agent acts in your...

Dev.to | Oct 15, 2026 | Rojaneer

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It never embeds the agent or decides how it thinks. The agent is a separate program (a small LangChain agent in the repo). agenthof calls it over a socket and drives it through doors: model, tool, exec, spawn. The agent held only its run token; it never saw a secret.

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