What Does 'Excessive Agency' Mean?

[ AGENT SECURITY ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Agent SecurityCLUSTER: Agent Security

Granting an AI agent more autonomous permission, tool access, or decision-making latitude than its actual task requires, so a single successful manipulation can cause damage far beyond what the task itself should ever have allowed.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Nobody meant to grant the agent delete permissions on the whole bucket — pure excessive agency, discovered the hard way."

LORE & ORIGIN

One of the OWASP-catalogued LLM application risk categories, describing a structural over-permissioning problem rather than any single attack technique.

FIRST SEEN

2023

PEAK POPULARITY

2026 (Agent Security)

CURRENT STATUS

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

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