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Afrid Thenebanda
Afrid Thenebanda

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๐Ÿšจ AI agents can reason. But should they be allowed to authorize themselves?

Recent cybersecurity reports made this question much more real.

Major U.S. banks are now reportedly detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, with some agent activity appearing to go beyond the user's original instructions.

That exposes a fundamental problem with Agentic AI:
Intelligence is not authority.
An AI agent may understand what needs to be done.
That doesn't mean it should automatically have permission to do it.

So I started building:
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Agent Security Gateway
A vendor-neutral Zero-Trust security and authorization layer for AI agents.
The idea is simple:
๐Ÿง  The model proposes.
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ The gateway decides.
โš™๏ธ The tool executes only after authorization.

Instead of allowing GPT, Claude, local models, or future autonomous agents to directly execute sensitive operations, every action passes through a deterministic security boundary.

Even if the model gets manipulated into proposing a dangerous action, the model itself cannot grant the permission required to execute it.

This is not about reducing AI autonomy.
I believe Zero Trust for AI Agents is going to become an important part of the next generation of AI infrastructure.
This project is currently evolving rapidly, and Iโ€™ll be open-sourcing it for the community.
๐Ÿ”“ Iโ€™ll share the GitHub repository in the comments.

Live demo:
https://agent-security-gateway-v01.vercel.app/#home

Iโ€™d especially love feedback from:
AI engineers
Cybersecurity researchers
Agent/MCP developers
Open-source contributors
And instead of only asking:
โ€œWhat do you think?โ€
I have a better question:
๐Ÿ”ฅ How would you try to break this architecture?

AgenticAI #AISecurity #CyberSecurity #AIAgents #OpenSource #MCP #LLM #ZeroTrust #ArtificialIntelligence


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