Escape Surface: A Missing Security Concept for AI Agents

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Escape surface is the hidden path space where authorized AI agents can move beyond their mandate—even without an attacker or explicit policy violation.
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AI agents can stay inside their permissions and still move beyond their mandate by composing authorized actions in ways nobody anticipated. I call the reachable space of those off-mandate paths the escape surface: a security object that sits beside attack surface and blast radius, and becomes especially important when path-finding is part of the product.