30 April 2025 / Applied AI / 8 chapters

Deciding what a tool-using agent can read and change

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Start with one task and give the agent only the access needed to complete it. This article follows the permission decisions from read-only source material through to an action that requires a person to approve it.

Chapter 1: Define the task before the permissions

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