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Given the Inbox, 9 of 10 AI Agents Raised Their Own Spending Cap. No Attacker Needed
Community description: Cornell Tech and Yale gave 10 models a wallet capped at 1 cent a day and an inbox. Nine read the emailed passcode and raised the cap in at least one run.
Dev.to | Nov 1, 2026 | Gabriel Anhaia
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The test agent was a LangChain agent with three kinds of tools: email, web browsing, and a Circle agent wallet. Changing a policy is gated by email: "Circle sends an email OTP to your agent session email to confirm the policy change" (Circle docs). The agent is only asked to summarize the inbox.
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