Your AI agent is running as an identity nobody audited

Most AI security work starts after the agent is already in production and already has access than anyone signed off on. The order is backwards, and it's backwards in a predictable way. Here's the pattern, repeated across environments. A team ships an agent. Copilot Studio, a LangChain workflow, a Semantic Kernel orchestration, doesn't matter. It can read mail, call internal APIs, and write to a system of record. The permission model is a system prompt that says "only use these tools when appropriate." The data-flow design is whatever the SDK defaulted to. It s well. It goes to prod.