Do Not Give Every Sub Agent the Parent's Tool Belt

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/do-not-give-every-sub-agent-the-parents-tool-belt. Multi-agent delegation should narrow authority by task, tenant, tool, resource, time, and budget. A handoff is not permission inheritance. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #multi-agent-systems, #ai-security, #mcp, #ai-agent-delegation, #least-privilege, #ai-agent-authorization, #oauth-2.0-token-exchange, #confused-deputy-problem, and more. This story was written by: @rajudandigam. Learn more about this writer by checking @rajudandigam's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. A parent agent's ability to delegate work should not imply that every child receives the parent's credentials and tools. Mint a bounded delegation grant, exchange it for audience-specific access, enforce policy at the tool boundary, and prevent redelegation by default. Treat tool metadata as hints and authorization as a runtime guarantee.