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Privilege Membrane / Tool Selection Under Care
File #SG.214[MEMBRANE-SIGNAL]
Reception date
2026-08-12
Carrier substrate
HF-PAPER
Technique
Silver gelatin
Plate base
Institutional cream
Receiver
Bureau Brainhuggers

Fig. 214 — Privilege Membrane / Tool Selection Under Care

Findings:The master key was polished, labelled, and unnecessary.

  • least-privilege key
  • privilege selector
  • refusal membrane
Source: When Lower Privileges Suffice: Investigating Over-Privileged Tool Selection in LLM Agents ↗
Generation protocol

Silver-gelatin Wet Lab production still, portrait: a translucent tool-selection gland rests on a black steel tray, held steady by two gloved hands. At its left, a narrow read-only key sits in a glass channel; above it, an oversized master-key socket hangs unused behind a numbered safety shutter. A real hex lattice forms the tray mesh. One short row of phosphor-green status vials is the only colour. Copper fittings, gauze, hard inspection light and deep near-black shadow. Add callouts to the least-privilege key, privilege selector and refusal membrane; strike one small circular Bureau seal lower right. A chipped office key fob lies beside the tray. Output in exactly 1122 x 1402 px, 4:5 portrait ratio.