Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control

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Hauptverfasser: Summers, Charlie, Mohammed, Haneen, Wu, Eugene
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author Summers, Charlie
Mohammed, Haneen
Wu, Eugene
author_facet Summers, Charlie
Mohammed, Haneen
Wu, Eugene
contents The promise of Large Language Model (LLM) agents is to perform complex, stateful tasks. This promise is stunted by significant risks - policy violations, process corruption, and security flaws - that stem from the lack of visibility and mechanisms to manage undesirable data flows produced by agent actions. Today, agent workflows are responsible for enforcing these policies in ad hoc ways. Just as data validation and access controls shifted from the application to the DBMS, freeing application developers from these concerns, we argue that systems should support Data Flow Controls (DFCs) and enforce DFC policies natively. This paper describes early work developing a portable instance of DFC for DBMSes and outlines a broader research agenda toward DFC for agent ecosystems.
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spellingShingle Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control
Summers, Charlie
Mohammed, Haneen
Wu, Eugene
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
The promise of Large Language Model (LLM) agents is to perform complex, stateful tasks. This promise is stunted by significant risks - policy violations, process corruption, and security flaws - that stem from the lack of visibility and mechanisms to manage undesirable data flows produced by agent actions. Today, agent workflows are responsible for enforcing these policies in ad hoc ways. Just as data validation and access controls shifted from the application to the DBMS, freeing application developers from these concerns, we argue that systems should support Data Flow Controls (DFCs) and enforce DFC policies natively. This paper describes early work developing a portable instance of DFC for DBMSes and outlines a broader research agenda toward DFC for agent ecosystems.
title Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05374