Does Showing Agents the Privilege of Their Tools Reduce Over-Privileged Tool Selection?

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Simon Parkinson, Mauro Vallati, Zhipeng Wang, Mustafa Mustafa)

Summary by Cyber Security News2 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.40975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When several tools can complete a task, an agent that picks the most powerful one holds more authority than the task needs. Recent work demonstrates that language-model agents do this often, and more so after a tool fails. Approaches to restrict focus so far on either enforcing least privilege outside the model or retraining the model.

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