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Behavioral Credentials: Why Static Authorization Fails Autonomous Agents
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Behavioral Credentials: Why Static Authorization Fails Autonomous Agents

O’Reilly Media·Wendi Soto·about 1 month ago
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Enterprise AI governance still authorizes agents as if they were stable software artifacts. They are not. An enterprise deploys a LangChain-based research agent to analyze market trends and draft internal briefs. During preproduction review, the system behaves within acceptable bounds: It routes queries to approved data sources, expresses uncertainty appropriately in ambiguous cases, and maintains source attribution discipline. On that basis, it receives OAuth credentials and API tokens and enters production. Six weeks later, telemetry shows a different behavioral profile. Tool-use entropy has increased. The agent routes a growing share of queries through secondary search APIs not part of the original operating profile. Confidence calibration has drifted: It expresses certainty on ambiguous questions where it previously signaled uncertainty. Source attribution remains technically accurate, but outputs increasingly omit conflicting evidence that the deployment-time system would have surfaced.…

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