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AI agent security checklist: permissions, secrets, logs, rollback.
Agent security is not a prompt. It is an operating posture: least privilege, no secrets in chat, explicit approvals, observable actions, and a pause button.
Checklist
- Keep secrets out of prompts, memory, logs, tickets, screenshots, and public artifacts.
- Start with read-only, sample, exported, or sandbox data.
- Require human approval for external, destructive, financial, or public actions.
- Log tool calls, files touched, approvals, outputs, and errors.
- Define rollback owner and pause/kill switch before pilot.
Operator note
A practical AI-agent security checklist for permissions, secret handling, approval gates, audit trails, and rollback planning.
This resource exists to make AI work visible, bounded, and supportable: scoped workflows, clear approvals, artifacts, logs, and rollback before autonomy.
When to use it
Use this checklist before connecting an agent to files, chat, email, ticketing, CRM, browsers, APIs, or any system with private data. The goal is to make the blast radius obvious before the first live run.
Most agent risk comes from ordinary operational shortcuts: broad credentials, unclear logs, no approval gate, no rollback owner, or sensitive data copied into prompts and tickets. This checklist turns those shortcuts into explicit decisions.
Security work should stay proportional to the workflow, but it cannot be skipped. Even a small draft-only assistant needs boundaries, audit evidence, and a human who knows how to pause it.
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