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Agent Access Control as a Safety Foundation
You cannot let agents go wild if they have read-only access to two tables. Granular permissions are the foundation of safe agentic deployment.
How it works
- 1Every Bruin agent can be scoped to specific data sources, specific Slack channels, specific query types, and specific cost thresholds (e.g., no query that costs more than $2).
- 2A marketing agent in a marketing Slack channel only sees marketing data. An executive agent in a private channel sees sensitive financials.
- 3You can restrict internet access, external network sources, and query complexity at the agent level.
- 4The output of every agent is checked by another agent before it surfaces to the team. Every answer links to a full session log.
- 5If an agent can only see two of your marketing tables in Snowflake, there is a hard ceiling on the harm it can cause - regardless of how the model behaves.
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