StudioThe big question of 2026: Is a connector worth trusting with your email, files, and payments?
The author explains what you actually agree to when connecting an AI app: a connector is not a local program but a remote server exposing tools, involving three parties in the trust chain: the AI company, the connector operator, and the service holding your data. The main risks are threefold: OAuth permission scopes are often broader than needed, prompt injection means the AI can follow hidden instructions in text it reads, which is most dangerous when private data access, exposure to stranger text, and a way to send things out coincide, and the operator's legitimacy and data handling practices. The author proposes a permission ladder, starting from public data and read-only access up to send, pay or delete actions gated by human approval, illustrated with two open source MCP examples, Le…
The post breaks down the three-party trust chain of connectors and prompt injection risk, offering a practical tiered authorization method readers can use to audit their own permission habits.
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