StudioHow a fleet of agents should get credentials: agent names are the wrong answer
Original title: When you run a fleet of agents, how do you decide which one gets which credentials? An agent's name turned out to be the wrong answer
A developer building a runtime guard for unattended agents says trusting agent names or request tags to assign credentials is unsafe, since agents can write those tags. He argues identity should come from the OS-reported user ID, with operator-written templates pinning executables by hash, fresh instance IDs per run, and credentials off by default, and notes hash pinning end-to-end remains unsolved.
The author draws on first-hand experience building a runtime guard for agents to share five principles for credential assignment based on OS ownership rather than request-supplied labels, useful reference for multi-agent permission design.
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