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The confused deputy problem refers to a lower-privilege subject indirectly performing operations through a higher-privilege intermediary that may be induced to abuse its permissions; in agent architectures, the solution is to have the agent run on behalf of the user, with credentials no more privileged than the triggerer itself.
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