FutureCentral Research · Playbook 01

The Agent Containment Playbook

How much production authority should one banking AI agent hold?

Work through five documented steps to map inputs, scope permissions, assess exposure, assemble assurance evidence, and plan incident response.

October 2026 · Banking and agentic AI governance · 17-page PDF · About 20 minutes

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Five steps to an authority decision

Use the playbook for one proposed workflow at a time. Each step produces a document the review team can examine.

01

Map the threat surface

Identify every route by which outside content reaches the agent’s context.

02

Design permissions and scope

Derive the entitlement set from the task and record the permissions withheld.

03

Map exposure and reversal

Classify actions, quantify exposure, and name the checkpoints that contain a wrong action.

04

Assemble assurance evidence

Plan regression tests, shadow comparison, a bounded canary, and red-team review.

05

Plan incident response

Name the classification owner, reporting route, remediation path, and kill-switch authority.

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A practical guide for information security, model validation, operations, and business sponsors at Indian banks.

Inside The Agent Containment Playbook: threat-surface mapping, owner, required output, and collections example

Includes a collections workflow example, a 13-point authority check with an action for every “No,” and a first-30-days implementation plan.

Regulatory references are dated October 14, 2026. The playbook identifies its operating assumptions and scope limits.

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