MCP Tool Permissions and Least Privilege
A practical permission model for controlling which MCP tools users and agents can discover, call, and approve.
Topic
#security-amp-safety
9 articles — updated daily
MCP Security Threat Model for Production Systems
A practical threat model for MCP hosts, clients, servers, tools, credentials, model context, and downstream systems.
MCP Prompt Injection, Tool Poisoning, and Data Exfiltration
A defensive guide to prompt injection, tool poisoning, confused-deputy risks, and data exfiltration in MCP systems.
MCP Authentication and Authorization Explained
A production-focused guide to authenticating MCP clients and authorizing users, tools, resources, tenants, and downstream actions.
Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents
A practical, production-oriented explanation of human-in-the-loop control, with examples, boundaries, trade-offs, and failure handling patterns.
Sandboxing AI Agents
A practical, production-oriented explanation of sandboxed agent execution, with examples, boundaries, trade-offs, and failure handling patterns.
Tool Permissions and Least Privilege for AI Agents
A practical, production-oriented explanation of least-privilege tool permissions, with examples, boundaries, trade-offs, and failure handling patterns.
Prompt Injection in AI Agents
A practical, production-oriented explanation of prompt injection in tool-using agents, with examples, boundaries, trade-offs, and failure handling patterns.
AI Agent Security Explained
A practical, production-oriented explanation of the security model of an AI agent, with examples, boundaries, trade-offs, and failure handling patterns.