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Harden CI/CD Against AI Agent Supply Chain Attacks

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Domain: agent-security | Difficulty: advanced | Source

Five-layer defense post-Clinejection: (1) Scope --allowedTools to read-only for triage agents, (2) Separate cache boundaries between low/high privilege workflows, (3) Distinct npm tokens for nightly vs production, (4) OIDC trusted publishing via GitHub Actions, (5) Never interpolate user-controlled data into AI agent prompts.

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