AI Agent Security: Identity, Scoping, and Blast Radius Containment

When AI agents are granted tool-execution privileges, they must be treated as autonomous enterprise identities. This deep-dive explains how to implement ephemeral OIDC credentials, least-privilege tool scopes, and cryptographic blast-radius containment.

The 3 Security Mandates

• Ephemeral, short-lived session tokens
• Strict parameter schema validation
• Deterministic human approval thresholds