AI Agents Don't Read Your Policy Docs. They Hit Your APIs — Gravitee
AI agent security must be enforced at the API gateway layer, not in prompts or policy docs.
“The question is how to bring this restriction down to the level of his identity so that he physically cannot do such things, instead of relying on the correct user prompt or some markdown files.”
Gravitee CTO Sam argues that enterprise AI security cannot rely on policy documents or prompt-level instructions, citing a survey showing 88% of organizations have agents in production but only 14% have meaningful controls. The proposed solution is to enforce restrictions at the API gateway and identity layer so agents are physically incapable of accessing unauthorized data, not merely instructed not to. This matters because it reframes agent security as an infrastructure problem rather than a prompting problem, with direct implications for HIPAA and GDPR compliance.