dev.to/tag/security· Sep 18, 2026· by Riley Lin

The Agent Is a Subprocessor

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You should treat every coding-agent prompt as a network egress event, not as a private scratchpad. Secrets, customer dumps, and internal hostnames leave your control the moment they enter a context window. A cheap redaction pass before the call is more reliable than hoping a vendor will forget. The rest of this article turns that rule into a repeatable threat model and a small sanitizer you can run locally. Coding assistants now sit inside the same loop where you reproduce bugs and paste stack t
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.
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