Capability Overreach Meaning?
4.0BRAINROT SCORECapability Overreach The moment an agent actually uses permissions or tool access beyond what a specific task called for, whether or not it was maliciously manipulated into doing so — the realized event that excessive agency, the structural condition, makes possible.
Origin:Coined to separate the act, a specific instance of an agent doing more than it should, from the underlying architectural risk category (excessive agency).
First Seen:2025
Peak Era:2026 (Agent Security)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Catching Capability Overreach in a Sandboxed Test Run) / -2 Aura (Only Noticing After It Already Touched Production)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"The staging run flagged capability overreach the second the agent tried to touch a table nothing in its task description mentioned."
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