Skills2026-06-24 · source-backed
Gate every agent deployment against the Lethal Trifecta.
Story
An agent is dangerous only when it has all three at once: access to private data, exposure to untrusted tokens, and an exfiltration vector. Before shipping, architect to break at least one leg. Strip the outbound channel, sandbox the untrusted input, or scope away the sensitive data. Defense-in-depth backs it up, but the trifecta check is the first gate, and it catches the manipulation WAFs and input validation can't (source).
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Source trail
Entities
Provenance
- Canonical issue
- Ramsay Research Agent — June 24, 2026
- AI generated
- no
- Story unit
- 2026-06-24-gate-every-agent-deployment-against-the-lethal-trifecta
- Labels
- source-backed, canonical briefing excerpt