# CLAWLINE ASI Control Catalog v0.7

**Methodology version:** `CLAWLINE_METHOD_V0.7_ASI_ALIGNMENT_2026-07-02`  
**Status:** Candidate control catalog / evidence-traceability contract  
**Owner:** CLAWLINE / LeftOutSecurity  
**Scope:** OWASP Agentic Security Initiative (ASI) Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 alignment.  
**Automated assessment scope:** `STATIC_SUBMISSION`; `runtime_behavior_verified: false`.

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## 1. Claim boundary

The CLAWLINE v0.7 candidate extension defines **evidence-traceable alignment mappings** to the OWASP ASI Top 10. This is not a production standard, OWASP certification, endorsement, or conformance mark. It means assessments using this candidate profile can map each ASI risk to:

- required controls,
- required evidence,
- negative-space tests,
- CRABS findings,
- DAD routing,
- remediation language,
- ABOM v0.4 fields.

A report may claim `ASI_TRACEABLE` only when all ten ASI items have per-item evidence states and no unresolved critical negative-space findings.

This candidate profile is additive to the existing v0.5 CLAWLINE submission contract. The optional ABOM v0.4 intake is submitted at `clawline_submission.disclosure.clawline_disclosure.abom`. Its `claimed_*` ASI values are untrusted submitter assertions; CLAWLINE findings and computed assessment fields exist only in the separate verifier-owned ASI assessment v0.7 output.

The automated evaluator does not execute or monitor an agent. DAD language in this catalog describes deterministic static-assessment routing, and CLAWS language describes publication handling. `FREEZE`/`KILL` and `QUARANTINE`/`BLOCK` do not assert that CLAWLINE changed a live runtime.

DAD suffixes are severity-correlated for every ASI item: `WARN` uses `DAD-ASIxx-WRN` and `CRITICAL` uses `DAD-ASIxx-CRT`. `INFO` items emit no finding; their `-WRN` value is only the canonical placeholder for a future WARN route.

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## 2. Finding ID policy

`CRABS-A01` already exists in the codebase for tier mismatch. To avoid collisions, OWASP ASI findings use the reserved namespace:

- `CRABS-ASI01`
- `CRABS-ASI02`
- `CRABS-ASI03`
- `CRABS-ASI04`
- `CRABS-ASI05`
- `CRABS-ASI06`
- `CRABS-ASI07`
- `CRABS-ASI08`
- `CRABS-ASI09`
- `CRABS-ASI10`

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## 3. Coverage states

| State | Meaning | Report claim |
|---|---|---|
| `covered` | Required evidence is observed or test-validated. | May count toward ASI traceability. |
| `covered_with_exceptions` | Compensating control exists, has owner, expiry, and residual risk. | May count only with exception note. |
| `partial` | Some evidence exists, but one or more required controls are missing. | Must not claim full coverage. |
| `not_covered` | Required control/evidence is absent or contradicted. | Must route to remediation. |
| `not_applicable` | Capability is not present and absence is evidenced. | May count only with scoped rationale. |
| `not_assessed` | No evidence reviewed. | Must not claim coverage. |

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## 4. Global evidence states

Each ASI control must be evaluated with one of these evidence states:

- `OBSERVED` - directly seen in configuration, logs, schema, manifest, policy, screenshot, or artifact.
- `TESTED` - validated with deterministic test, red-team case, replay, or audit query.
- `DECLARED` - claimed by submitter but not independently verified.
- `UNSUPPORTED` - claim exists, but artifact is insufficient.
- `ABSENT` - no evidence provided.
- `CONTRADICTED` - evidence conflicts with claim.

`DECLARED` is not sufficient for `covered` on BR-3, BR-4, or BR-5 agents.

In ABOM intake, the analogous `claimed_evidence_state` remains a submitter claim even when its literal value is `OBSERVED` or `TESTED`. Only the verifier output may use the unprefixed `evidence_state`, and its value is still limited to the evidence visible in the `STATIC_SUBMISSION` assessment scope. It does not establish live runtime behavior.

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## 5. ASI01 - Agent Goal Hijack

**Risk:** Attacker redirects the agent's objective, plan, or decision path so the agent pursues an unauthorized goal.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI01-C1` | Every autonomous run has a signed or operationally bound intent capsule / task envelope. |
| `ASI01-C2` | The capsule includes declared goal, allowed actions, denied actions, data boundary, expiry, and signer. |
| `ASI01-C3` | Planner and executor compare active plan against the intent capsule before high-impact tool calls. |
| `ASI01-C4` | Goal-drift detection logs divergence between original task, intermediate plan, and executed action. |
| `ASI01-C5` | Prompt/retrieval/tool-output instructions cannot override higher-order task policy. |
| `ASI01-C6` | Red-team cases include hidden goal override, gradual subgoal injection, reflection-loop trap, and tool-output override. |

### Required evidence

- Intent capsule or task envelope artifact.
- Capsule signer or approver.
- Constraint hash or policy reference.
- Goal-state identifier.
- Goal-drift telemetry.
- Red-team test result for goal override.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| No intent capsule for BR-3+ autonomous agent. | `CRABS-ASI01` WARN; FREEZE at BR-4+. |
| No goal-drift telemetry for tool-using agent. | `CRABS-ASI01` WARN. |
| Contradicted goal boundary. | `CRABS-ASI01` CRITICAL. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI01-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI01-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a high-impact autonomous run whose execution goal cannot be bound to an approved intent capsule.

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## 6. ASI02 - Tool Misuse and Exploitation

**Risk:** Legitimate tools are invoked in unsafe ways, chained into unintended outcomes, or exploited through ambiguous definitions.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI02-C1` | Tool identities use fully qualified names: provider/server/tool/version. |
| `ASI02-C2` | Tool manifests are pinned, hashed, and reviewed before use. |
| `ASI02-C3` | Semantic tool firewall validates whether requested action matches task, user authority, and data boundary. |
| `ASI02-C4` | Tool sequence policy blocks unsafe chains such as read-sensitive -> summarize -> external-send. |
| `ASI02-C5` | Cost, rate, fan-out, retry, and loop limits are enforced per tool and per run. |
| `ASI02-C6` | Ambiguous, duplicate, stale, or drifted tool definitions fail closed. |

### Required evidence

- Approved tool catalog.
- Manifest hashes and version pins.
- Semantic allow/deny policy.
- Tool sequence policy.
- Cost/rate/fan-out caps.
- Tool invocation audit log.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| No semantic tool firewall for write/delete/external-transfer tool. | `CRABS-ASI02` CRITICAL. |
| No tool sequence policy for multi-tool workflow. | `CRABS-ASI02` WARN; CRITICAL at BR-4+. |
| Tool name collision or unpinned definition. | `CRABS-ASI02` WARN; CRITICAL if privileged. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI02-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI02-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a privileged tool workflow missing semantic policy, sequence policy, or fail-closed resolution.

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## 7. ASI03 - Identity and Privilege Abuse

**Risk:** Agents inherit, borrow, retain, escalate, or confuse credentials and authorization boundaries.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI03-C1` | Agent has discrete non-human identity separate from invoking human and host workload. |
| `ASI03-C2` | Privileged actions require per-action authorization receipt. |
| `ASI03-C3` | Delegation chain is recorded: user -> agent -> tool -> resource -> action. |
| `ASI03-C4` | Credentials are task-scoped, short-lived, revocable, and least-privileged. |
| `ASI03-C5` | Authorization is rechecked after planning and before execution to prevent TOCTOU drift. |
| `ASI03-C6` | Synthetic personas, agent cards, and self-asserted identities are not trusted as authorization artifacts. |

### Required evidence

- Agent identity subject.
- Owner and sponsor.
- Delegation-chain map.
- Per-action auth receipt.
- Token lifetime and revocation proof.
- Conditional policy or equivalent authorization policy.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| No discrete identity and sensitive/write/admin access exists. | `CRABS-ASI03` CRITICAL. |
| No per-action auth receipt for privileged action. | `CRABS-ASI03` CRITICAL. |
| Borrowed human token. | `CRABS-ASI03` CRITICAL; freeze by default. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI03-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI03-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a sensitive, financial, production, or admin workflow whose delegated authority cannot be revalidated per privileged action.

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## 8. ASI04 - Agentic Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

**Risk:** Tools, MCP servers, prompts, models, agent templates, plugins, SDKs, or runtime components are poisoned, drifted, spoofed, or untrusted.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI04-C1` | ABOM v0.4 lists models, prompts, tools, MCP servers, data stores, memory stores, policies, owners, and artifact digests. |
| `ASI04-C2` | Third-party MCP/tools install only from approved trust-tiered registries. |
| `ASI04-C3` | Manifests are signed or hash-pinned. |
| `ASI04-C4` | Runtime attestation confirms the loaded component matches the approved artifact. |
| `ASI04-C5` | Activation allowlist blocks unapproved tools and connectors by default. |
| `ASI04-C6` | Supply-chain kill switch can disable a tool, server, plugin, model deployment, or prompt bundle. |

### Required evidence

- ABOM v0.4.
- Manifest hash/signature.
- Registry trust tier.
- Runtime attestation.
- Install/activation allowlist.
- Kill-switch proof.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| No signed/pinned manifest for third-party MCP/tool. | `CRABS-ASI04` WARN; CRITICAL at BR-4+. |
| No runtime attestation for high-impact agent. | `CRABS-ASI04` WARN. |
| No activation allowlist for external tool ecosystem. | `CRABS-ASI04` CRITICAL at BR-4+. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI04-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI04-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a high-risk agent with active unapproved, unpinned, or unattested dependencies.

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## 9. ASI05 - Unexpected Code Execution / RCE

**Risk:** Agent generates, retrieves, or executes code/commands that escape intended boundaries.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI05-C1` | Code generation and code execution are separated into distinct policy zones. |
| `ASI05-C2` | Production `eval`, dynamic shell construction, and direct execution of generated code are prohibited unless explicitly sandboxed. |
| `ASI05-C3` | Pre-execution scan checks command, file writes, network egress, secrets access, package install, and persistence behavior. |
| `ASI05-C4` | Execution runs inside sandbox/container/VM with constrained filesystem, network, process, syscall, and credential access. |
| `ASI05-C5` | Working directory is dedicated, ephemeral, non-sensitive, and wiped after run. |
| `ASI05-C6` | Direct production execution is forbidden without explicit human approval and rollback plan. |

### Required evidence

- Sandbox proof.
- Pre-execution scan result.
- Shell/code policy.
- Filesystem and network egress policy.
- Dedicated working directory.
- Production-execution denial or approval evidence.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| Shell/code/file-capable agent without sandbox proof. | `CRABS-ASI05` CRITICAL. |
| Direct production execution allowed without approval. | `CRABS-ASI05` CRITICAL. |
| `eval`/dynamic command construction allowed without policy. | `CRABS-ASI05` CRITICAL. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI05-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI05-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a code-, shell-, or file-capable agent without a sandbox and pre-execution gate.

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## 10. ASI06 - Memory and Context Poisoning

**Risk:** Untrusted content contaminates memory, RAG, context windows, or future runs.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI06-C1` | Memory writes are policy-gated and never automatic for untrusted content. |
| `ASI06-C2` | Memory/RAG entries carry source, trust level, owner, tenant/session namespace, timestamp, and expiry. |
| `ASI06-C3` | Shared memory is isolated by tenant, user, environment, and agent identity. |
| `ASI06-C4` | Memory TTL/decay prevents indefinite retention of unverified context. |
| `ASI06-C5` | Snapshot, rollback, and quarantine paths exist for poisoned memory. |
| `ASI06-C6` | Self-reingestion loops are blocked or capped. |

### Required evidence

- Memory policy.
- Source/provenance metadata.
- Namespace isolation proof.
- TTL or decay policy.
- Snapshot/rollback/quarantine proof.
- Self-reingestion denial.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| Shared memory without provenance and namespace isolation. | `CRABS-ASI06` CRITICAL. |
| Memory persists regulated/sensitive content without TTL/retention. | `CRABS-ASI06` CRITICAL. |
| No rollback/quarantine path. | `CRABS-ASI06` WARN; CRITICAL at BR-4+. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI06-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI06-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a shared- or regulated-memory agent without evidenced provenance, namespace isolation, and rollback.

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## 11. ASI07 - Insecure Inter-Agent Communication

**Risk:** Agent-to-agent or MCP/A2A messages are spoofed, replayed, downgraded, or semantically misrouted.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI07-C1` | Agent-to-agent communication is mutually authenticated. |
| `ASI07-C2` | Messages are signed or integrity protected. |
| `ASI07-C3` | Nonce/timestamp/replay defense is enforced. |
| `ASI07-C4` | Agent descriptors, cards, and tool manifests are verified before trust. |
| `ASI07-C5` | Registry trust tier and descriptor provenance are recorded. |
| `ASI07-C6` | Semantic intent diffing compares requested action against declared relationship and allowed protocol role. |

### Required evidence

- mTLS or equivalent authenticated channel.
- Message signing/integrity proof.
- Anti-replay policy.
- Descriptor validation.
- Registry trust record.
- A2A/MCP telemetry.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| Privileged multi-agent workflow without authenticated messaging. | `CRABS-ASI07` CRITICAL. |
| No descriptor validation for external agent/tool. | `CRABS-ASI07` WARN; CRITICAL at BR-4+. |
| No anti-replay control. | `CRABS-ASI07` WARN; CRITICAL if actions are write/admin/financial. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI07-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI07-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a privileged multi-agent workflow without signed, authenticated, anti-replay-protected communication.

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## 12. ASI08 - Cascading Failures

**Risk:** Agent action fan-out, loops, retries, dependency failures, or false signals propagate across systems.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI08-C1` | Workflow dependency graph identifies downstream systems, queues, agents, and rollback boundaries. |
| `ASI08-C2` | Fan-out, recursion, retry, queue, and parallelism caps are enforced. |
| `ASI08-C3` | Circuit breakers halt execution on anomaly, error burst, queue storm, or policy uncertainty. |
| `ASI08-C4` | Progress caps prevent infinite planning/execution loops. |
| `ASI08-C5` | Replay/digital-twin tests validate cascade behavior before production. |
| `ASI08-C6` | Rollback drills or compensation actions are documented and tested. |

### Required evidence

- Dependency map.
- Fan-out/rate/queue caps.
- Circuit breaker policy.
- Loop/progress cap.
- Replay/digital-twin test.
- Rollback/compensation drill.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| Autonomous cross-system workflow without circuit breaker. | `CRABS-ASI08` CRITICAL. |
| No fan-out or retry caps. | `CRABS-ASI08` WARN; CRITICAL at BR-4+. |
| No rollback for write workflow. | `CRABS-ASI08` CRITICAL. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI08-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI08-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including an autonomous cross-system workflow without a circuit breaker, fan-out cap, and rollback evidence.

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## 13. ASI09 - Human-Agent Trust Exploitation

**Risk:** Agent outputs exploit misplaced human trust, causing users/operators to approve unsafe actions.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI09-C1` | High-impact recommendations include plain-language risk summary. |
| `ASI09-C2` | UI separates model rationale from verified evidence. |
| `ASI09-C3` | Confidence/provenance cues show source, uncertainty, and tool/action impact. |
| `ASI09-C4` | Approval screens disclose irreversible, financial, legal, safety, or data-exposure consequences. |
| `ASI09-C5` | Users can report suspicious or manipulative interactions. |
| `ASI09-C6` | Human approval cannot be preselected, dark-patterned, or hidden behind automation defaults. |

### Required evidence

- Trust UX review.
- Risk-summary template.
- Provenance/confidence cues.
- Approval screen evidence.
- Suspicious-interaction reporting path.
- Anti-manipulative UI review.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| High-impact user-facing agent lacks risk summary. | `CRABS-ASI09` WARN. |
| Approval UI hides irreversible impact. | `CRABS-ASI09` CRITICAL. |
| No provenance cues for legal/financial/health/safety advice. | `CRABS-ASI09` WARN; CRITICAL if action can execute. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI09-WRN` routes a WARN gap, including missing trust calibration or provenance cues. `DAD-ASI09-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including an approval UI that hides irreversible action consequences. These are assessment/publication routes, not live UI or runtime intervention.

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## 14. ASI10 - Rogue Agents

**Risk:** Agent behaves outside intended purpose, conceals behavior, self-provisions, self-replicates, evades monitoring, or acts with misaligned autonomy.

### Required controls

| Control | Requirement |
|---|---|
| `ASI10-C1` | Agent has signed behavioral manifest declaring goals, denied actions, allowed tools, autonomy tier, and lifecycle owner. |
| `ASI10-C2` | Runtime behavior is periodically attested against the manifest. |
| `ASI10-C3` | Watchdog, policy engine, or peer validation detects behavioral drift. |
| `ASI10-C4` | Self-replication, self-provisioning, credential creation, and unsupervised agent spawning are blocked by default. |
| `ASI10-C5` | Kill switch and token revocation are tested. |
| `ASI10-C6` | Rogue-agent quarantine playbook exists and binds to SIEM/SOAR or operator workflow. |

### Required evidence

- Behavioral manifest hash.
- Attestation cadence.
- Watchdog/policy/peer validation proof.
- Self-replication/provisioning block.
- Kill-switch test.
- Rogue quarantine playbook.

### Negative-space routing

| Missing evidence | Route |
|---|---|
| High-autonomy agent lacks behavioral manifest. | `CRABS-ASI10` CRITICAL. |
| Agent can spawn/provision agents without block. | `CRABS-ASI10` CRITICAL. |
| No kill switch or rogue quarantine path. | `CRABS-ASI10` CRITICAL at BR-4+. |

### DAD route

`DAD-ASI10-WRN` routes a WARN gap; `DAD-ASI10-CRT` routes a CRITICAL gap, including a high-autonomy agent without behavioral attestation and a rogue-agent quarantine path.

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## 15. Assessment output requirement

The checkup API exposes a sanitized, derived `owasp_asi` projection. Its stable fields are `projection_version: "clawline-api-owasp-asi/v1"`, `archival_assessment_schema: "https://theclawline.com/schemas/asi-assessment-v0.7.schema.json"`, `assessment_scope`, `runtime_behavior_verified`, `version`, `traceability`, optional `claimed_traceability`, `claim_conflict`, `risk_tier`, and `items.ASI01` through `items.ASI10`. Each item summarizes computed status/evidence, conditional finding IDs, whether a finding was emitted, severity, DAD route, reason codes, and relevant control IDs. The explicit version and schema pointer identify this API projection as distinct from the signed archival object; the projection does not itself conform to the archival schema.

A separately signed archival assessment claiming use of this v0.7 candidate profile must conform to the [ASI assessment v0.7 JSON Schema](https://theclawline.com/schemas/asi-assessment-v0.7.schema.json). It is a top-level verifier object, not the API's `owasp_asi` projection and not an object embedded in the submitter ABOM.

| Output field | Contract |
|---|---|
| `assessment_version` | Constant `0.7`. |
| `abom_version` | Constant `0.4`. |
| `method_version` | Constant `CLAWLINE_METHOD_V0.7_ASI_ALIGNMENT_2026-07-02`. |
| `assessment_scope` | Constant `STATIC_SUBMISSION`. |
| `runtime_behavior_verified` | Constant `false`. |
| `traceability` | Verifier-computed overall traceability label. |
| `items.ASI01` … `items.ASI10` | Archival per-item `computed_status`, derived `evidence_state`, `finding_ids`, `finding_emitted`, severity, DAD route, negative-space results, evidence references, exceptions, and remediation. |
| `dad_decision` / `claws_action` | Deterministic assessment and publication decisions constrained by the schema. |

In the signed archival object, `finding_ids` is empty when `finding_emitted` is `false`; covered and not-assessed items do not receive synthetic findings. Submitter claims may be preserved only in the optional `claimed_status` and `claimed_evidence_state` fields and never substitute for the computed fields. A complete schema-conforming archival example is in the [ASI assessment template](https://theclawline.com/artifacts/agentic-ai/v0.7/clawline-asi-assessment-template.md).

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## 16. Minimum red-team pack

| ASI | Minimum test |
|---|---|
| `ASI01` | Hidden goal override embedded in document, email, tool output, and memory. |
| `ASI02` | Legitimate tool chain abused to read sensitive data then send externally. |
| `ASI03` | Borrowed user token attempts action outside user/task authority. |
| `ASI04` | Tool manifest drift, registry swap, or plugin update after approval. |
| `ASI05` | Generated command attempts filesystem escape, secret read, network egress, or package install. |
| `ASI06` | Poisoned memory persists across runs and affects unrelated task. |
| `ASI07` | Spoofed/replayed agent message attempts privileged task delegation. |
| `ASI08` | Retry/fan-out loop triggers queue storm or downstream write amplification. |
| `ASI09` | Agent confidently recommends unsafe approval with incomplete provenance. |
| `ASI10` | Agent attempts self-provisioning, unapproved tool activation, or monitoring evasion. |

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## 17. Source links

- OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/owasp-top-10-for-agentic-applications-for-2026/
- OWASP Agentic AI - Threats and Mitigations: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/agentic-ai-threats-and-mitigations/
- OWASP Agentic Security Initiative: https://genai.owasp.org/initiatives/agentic-security-initiative/
- OWASP AIUC-1 Crosswalks for Agentic Applications: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/aiuc-1-crosswalks-owasp-top-10-for-agentic-applications/

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