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Comment by stubish

17 hours ago

But how is this worse? If you run an agent now, it will run with your privileges. If you run an agent after this feature, it will run with limited privileges as specified by you.

Heaps of ranting here about agents sucking down private data to Microsoft servers without your knowledge, where a cursory look at this feature is to give you more control if you actually want to use agents. Sure, it might be learned reflex behavior, but that is exactly what OP was talking about.

It's worse because they're exposing these features to the kind of people who aren't running agents now.

  • It literally says in the article:

    "This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default."

    Reading the full article this is just a power user feature and in beta at that. I can see where it could be useful and the fact it puts further restrictions on how each agent works mitigates security issues.