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Agent skills are the newest piece of plumbing quietly making its way onto developer machines. They're easy to install, they get to call into the user's tools on the agent's behalf, and once they're in place they tend to stay in place. While auditing the popular installer vercel-labs/skills, we saw several ways a bad actor can make the tool install something other than what the user thought they were installing.

Least privilege is foundational. It's been a core security principle for decades, and it's no less relevant in agentic AI environments. An agent shouldn't hold permissions beyond what its task requires, and remediating over-permissioned agents is one of the highest-value quick wins available to any agentic AI security program. But here's what the security industry has been slow to acknowledge: correctly implemented least privilege still isn't sufficient.

What recent AI security developments should change and what they should not—for security leaders and vulnerability management teams The question is no longer whether AI will affect vulnerability discovery. It is whether exposure management programs can keep up with a faster clock.

ThreatSpike exhibited at Infosecurity Europe 2026 at ExCeL London from 2–4 June this year. Three days, ten expert sessions presented on our stand and more conversations about AI than we’ve had at any event in recent memory. This is our round-up: what we saw on the floor, what we presented, and what the industry is clearly wrestling with right now.