docs: Explain the agent tool boundary in common.ai security docs#68404
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The common.ai Security guide opens straight into the per-toolset "Defense Layers" table without first stating the boundary everything else rests on: an LLM agent can only act through the tools you register on it, and cannot run arbitrary code or read the environment, filesystem, or other connections unless a registered tool exposes that. This adds that framing up front and clarifies what "untrusted" applies to.
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A recurring misconception is that an LLM-driven DAG can "create a connection for itself" and read another connection's credentials. It cannot, unless a registered tool allows it (the existing HookToolset guidance already warns against exposing
get_connection). Stating the boundary explicitly heads off that misreading and gives a single standard to audit any custom toolset or MCP server against.