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Your team wants an AI agent that can open pull requests and trigger deploys. What is the risk model?

A release-automation design question with a specific trust boundary. The novel risk is prompt injection: untrusted text reaching a privileged agent, where the text is the instruction and your usual input validation does not apply.

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