At what point do you stop a long-running agent and call it a security incident?

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Summary

The article discusses the decision point for stopping a long-running AI agent when it starts writing to unintended systems or creating persistent state, asking readers to set a threshold for immediate shutdown versus monitoring.

Agent writes to unintended infrastructure or creates persistent state outside its sandbox. Could be a failed eval, could be something worse. The tricky part is knowing when to pull the plug vs letting it run and debugging later. What's your threshold – immediate kill or monitor first?
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