https://stackresearch.org/tags/environment-isolation/Recent content in Environment Isolation on Stack ResearchHugoen-usSat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackresearch.org/research/nhi-asi-series-04-blast-radius/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stackresearch.org/research/nhi-asi-series-04-blast-radius/<p>A local failure becomes a systemic failure when the same identity works in too many places.</p> <p>A development agent is asked to validate a dataset. The task sounds contained: read test records, run a comparison, report anomalies. The tool call succeeds. The problem is that the backing identity is not a development identity. It is a shared service account that also works against production resources. A low-risk validation task now has a production path.</p>