3. Permissions by design: Bind tools to tasks, not to models
A common anti-pattern is to give the model a long-lived credential and hope prompts keep it polite. SAIF and NIST argue the opposite: credentials and scopes should be bound to tools and tasks, rotated regularly, and auditable. Agents then request narrowly scoped capabilities through those tools.
In practice, that looks like: “finance-ops-agent may read, but not write, certain ledgers without CFO approval.”
The CEO question: Can we…

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