An agent breaks in production. Who's accountable?

Sep 9, 2026

We asked eight security and product leaders who's accountable when an agent ships to production and breaks something. Nobody said the model.

Harish Gaggar named the reason. An agent runs on permissions someone approved and configuration someone set. Ron Reiter drew the line in the same place, accountability sits with whoever decided what the agent could actually do.

As agents act across more systems, the accountability trail gets harder to follow. Most teams cannot determine which human granted an agent access.

See what Ramin Farassat, Hari Srinivasan, Matt Maher, Shiva Pillay, Dror Zelber, Harish Gaggar, Ron Reiter and Jeff Reich said when asked who owns it when an agent breaks production.