Anjaneya Sastry | Expert Solution Architect
AT&T

Identity Week America - Day 2 @ 11:10

Beyond scoped credentials — Gating autonomous agent actions on loss & irreplaceability

Autonomous agents are the newest — and least predictable — non-human identities in the enterprise: NHIs that compose their own commands. Scoped credentials shrink their blast radius, but even attribute-rich IAM answers whether an identity may act — never whether what’s inside can ever come back. This session presents an open-source pre-tool-call hook that closes the gap: a deterministic blast-radius floor plus a fully local “simulated-grief” grader, merged on a five-rung ladder where the stricter answer always wins. In testing it caught customer data that permissions allowed — even hidden under renamed directories — and the architecture independently re-derives a millennia-old Sanskrit analysis of attachment: code first, verses after. It ships today, open source: fewer approval prompts where they’re noise, harder stops where they’re load-bearing. 

Key takeaways: 

• Why IAM, credential scoping, and NHI governance answer “may” but never “matters.” 
• Deterministic + local-model guardrails at the pre-tool-call layer — without approval fatigue. 
• Fully local deployment patterns on Apple Silicon — nothing leaves the machine. 

Anjaneya Sastry, Expert Solution Architect, AT&T

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Anjaneya Sastry / Beyond scoped credentials — Gating autonomous agent actions on loss & irreplaceability

Anjaneya Sastry, Expert Solution Architect,
AT&T

Anjaneya Sastry Kappagantu Anjaneya Kappagantu is an Expert Solution Architect at AT&T with 25+ years architecting enterprise and telecom (BSS) systems — including as AT&T's solution architect for the first-ever iPhone launch and end-to-end Apple integration. He mentors principal...

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