What Is Blast Radius?
6.0BRAINROT SCOREBlast Radius How much damage a single agent failure, compromise, or bad decision can actually cause given the access and permissions it holds — the practical, bounded question every excessive-agency discussion eventually comes back to.
Origin:Borrowed from infrastructure and incident-response vocabulary, originally about server or deployment failures, and applied to agent permission scoping.
First Seen:2024
Peak Era:2026 (Agent Security)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Designing Agents So Their Blast Radius Is Small on Purpose) / -2 Aura (Only Learning the Blast Radius After the Incident)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Scoping the agent to one folder instead of the whole drive was purely about shrinking its blast radius."
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