operational guidance (AE Studio swarm test via The Register, Nov 6)
Tip: don't hand coding agents long-lived secrets as readable env vars; broker credentials at the tool boundary and gate script execution
- Give agents short-lived, narrowly scoped tokens, injected by the tool or proxy that needs them, not exported into the shell.
- Default-deny network egress from agent sandboxes except to allowlisted package and API hosts.
- Require human approval for
curl | sh-style installs and for posting to external forums, issues or chats.
Sources: The Register: AE Studio agent swarm test (Nov 6)