The Breaker (Cost & Recursive Loops)
We’ve all been there: you leave an autonomous AI agent running on a prototype script, grab a coffee, and come back to a $20 API bill for a single query. The reason is almost always the same: unbounded recursive loops. Giving an AI model access to tools (execute_workflow, query_database, search_the_web) creates an active reasoning loop. In local development, it looks like a miracle. But in production, it's a financial ticking time bomb. In our first article, we introduced our in-process tactical
🎯 Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution (RCE)
💡 Defense Fix: Avoid executing shell commands via system(). Use parameterized APIs and strict input sanitization.