How do you answer 'Do AI agents have their own identity?'
Reviewers ask whether agent actions can be told apart from human ones. Answer with identity type, credential owner, scope and revocation in plain terms.
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Reviewers ask whether agent actions can be told apart from human ones. Answer with identity type, credential owner, scope and revocation in plain terms.
Prompt and skill files steer agents and live beside code. Treat them as reviewed, versioned, owned artifacts, and ask your tooling whether it sees them.
Secrets reach a coding agent through project files, terminal output, pasted logs and tool results. Here are the five paths and a fix for each.
Prompt injection reaches a coding agent through issues, pull requests, docs, dependencies and tool results. Here is the input map and a control for each.
Connecting a remote MCP connector means finding the login server, approving scopes and getting a token. The steps in plain words, with what to check.
Give a coding agent the fewest tools and permissions its task needs, with human approval for high-impact actions. A guide built on OWASP excessive agency.
Both run code with the user's privileges. The trigger differs: an extension runs its own logic, while a model can call an MCP tool after reading text.
Follow one tool call from your request to the answer: discovery, choice, the call, the result, and where a person or a guardrail can step in.
AI speeds up coding, but gains can be lost downstream. How a golden path tests, scans and gates AI-written changes the same way as any other change.
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