arXiv AI By Jinhao Zhu, Xiao Huang, Kevin Tseng, Gil Vernik, Shishir G. Patil, Vivian Fang, Raluca Ada Popa

MiniScope: Authorizing Agents with Least-Privilege Permissions

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