Walk An Excessive-Agency Incident
Contain an AI agent incident by reducing action capability before analyzing prompt behavior.
The incident A procurement agent turned a Slack discussion into supplier-facing purchase orders. Four orders already left the company, and twenty-three drafts remain queued. The agent's permission boundary, not only its interpretation, is now the incident surface. Decision walk Freeze capability, reconcile actions, reopen narrowly For agent incidents, containment means reducing action authority while preserving tool-call evidence. Treat every agent tool permission as a blast-radius multiplier. Containment should remove capability faster than it explains intent. 01 Freeze capability 02 Reconcile actions 03 Reopen narrowly Step 1 The agent is still online. Procurement wants to keep draft generation because teams need…
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