arXiv:2610.40981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose AI agents require authority that changes between tasks and during execution. Common deployments trade broad permissions that expose unnecessary authority and narrow permissions that raise approval requests.
Towards Elastic Least Privilege for Agent Planning
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