Securing Multi-Agent Systems

When multiple AI agents collaborate, security complexity multiplies.

Challenges

• Agent-to-agent communication
• Permission delegation
• Trust boundaries
• Cascading failures

Strategies

1. Isolate Agents

Each agent gets its own token with minimal permissions.

2. Define Trust Boundaries

high_trust_agent:
  canDelegate: true
  maxDelegationDepth: 2

low_trust_agent:
  canDelegate: false

3. Implement Delegation Chains

Track who delegated what to whom:

User → Manager Agent → Worker Agent → API

4. Monitor Agent Interactions

Log all inter-agent communications and permission transfers.

ACT for Multi-Agent

• Per-agent tokens
• Delegation controls
• Interaction logging
• Cross-agent policies

Conclusion

Multi-agent systems need careful security design. ACT provides the tools.

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