--- title: Security: Agents Need Identity Like Humans | daily.dev description: AI agents that execute commands, modify infrastructure, and access sensitive data must be treated as first-class identities with proper permissions and access... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/security-agents-need-identity-like-humans-35pmoigsp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Security: Agents Need Identity Like Humans | daily.dev og:description: AI agents that execute commands, modify infrastructure, and access sensitive data must be treated as first-class identities with proper permissions and access... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/security-agents-need-identity-like-humans-35pmoigsp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/35PmoigSp.png og:image:alt: Security: Agents Need Identity Like Humans og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Security: Agents Need Identity Like Humans **[DevOps Toolkit](https://daily.dev/sources/devops-toolkit)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI agents that execute commands, modify infrastructure, and access sensitive data must be treated as first-class identities with proper permissions and access controls — just like human users. This means scoping permissions tightly (e.g., a Kubernetes agent can modify clusters but not access billing), and implementing hard guardrails that enforce limits regardless of what the LLM decides. Guardrails act as a safety net to catch hallucinated destructive commands before they execute. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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