# AI Agent Security Cheat Sheet — High-Impact Action Integrity Controls

> For destructive, financial, administrative, or externally visible actions, add controls beyond a simple approval prompt Separate decision-making from execution.

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For destructive, financial, administrative, or externally visible actions, add controls beyond a simple approval prompt

Separate decision-making from execution. The agent can propose an action, but a policy service or execution component should independently validate scope, privilege, and approval state before execution. Bind approval to the exact action. Include the actor, tool name, target resource, normalized parameters, timestamp, and expiry in the approval record. Use short-lived authorization artifacts and replay protection for irreversible operations. Require step-up authentication for critical actions such as account recovery, payment initiation, privilege changes, bulk deletion, or production deployment. Make high-impact actions idempotent where possible and require explicit duplicate confirmation when idempotency is not possible. Fail closed when risk classification, approval validation, policy lookup, or audit logging fails.

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