Principle of least privilege

Knowledge graph concept · also referred to as least privilege, low-trust mode, only permissions it needs, give my agent access to push to this repo for 24 hours, principle of the least privilege

Mentioned in

• Safe Hugging Face Access For Agents X thread · 2026-07-05
• MCP vs CLI X thread · 2026-03-24
• GitHub needs first-class support for working with agents X thread · 2026-03-04
• Responsible engineering in agent workflows X thread · 2026-01-22
• GitHub's trust model breaks under AI-generated code X thread · 2026-01-17
• GitHub has to change log · 2026-01-17

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