How much standing access do you give an AI agent by default?
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been seeing a wave of "cloud for your agent's tools" and "managed agent" products launching lately, and it's making me think about a question I don't have a good answer to yet - when you connect an agent to something, do you scope its access per-task and revoke after, or does it usually just end up with broad standing credentials because that's less setup friction? I keep defaulting to the convenient broad-access option and telling myself I'll tighten it later, which is obviously not a real plan. curious what other people actually do in practice, not what they'd say in a security review.
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honestly the same broad-access default, and I think the real reason isn't laziness so much as most tools not giving you a middle option. it's either "paste an API key with full account access" or "build your own scoped-token system yourself," nothing in between. I've started at least asking every new agent tool one question before connecting anything: can this be revoked or scoped down without me rotating the whole credential. if the answer's no, that's the tell it was built for a demo, not for someone actually running it unattended.