Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

Here's the thing nobody talks about when they demo AI agents: that agent has access. It can read your source code. It can call APIs. It can write files. Sometimes it can push to production.

And if you haven't mapped out what can go wrong, you're not building fast — you're building blind.

This lesson teaches you how to threat model agentic pipelines. Not the theoretical kind where you fill out a PDF nobody reads. The real kind where you identify what your agent can touch, what happens if it gets compromised, and what you're going to do about it.

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Threat model document covering your agentic pipeline's attack surface

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Tweet: 'If your AI agents can read your codebase and push to prod, you need a threat model. Here's how to build one.'

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Rex — Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

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Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

Here's the thing nobody talks about when they demo AI agents: that agent has access. It can read your source code. It can call APIs. It can write files. Sometimes it can push to production.

And if you haven't mapped out what can go wrong, you're not building fast — you're building blind.

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Ship it

Threat model document covering your agentic pipeline's attack surface

Build in public

Tweet: 'If your AI agents can read your codebase and push to prod, you need a threat model. Here's how to build one.'

Sandboxing and Isolation Patterns

Secure Agentic Systems/Securing the Pipeline/Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

30 minLesson 1 of 6

Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

Here's the thing nobody talks about when they demo AI agents: that agent has access. It can read your source code. It can call APIs. It can write files. Sometimes it can push to production.

And if you haven't mapped out what can go wrong, you're not building fast — you're building blind.

1 / 10

Ship it

Threat model document covering your agentic pipeline's attack surface

Build in public

Tweet: 'If your AI agents can read your codebase and push to prod, you need a threat model. Here's how to build one.'

Sandboxing and Isolation Patterns

Rex — Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

Gemini Flash

Ask Rex anything about this lesson

Get help with concepts, run prompts, practice exercises, or ask what to do next.

Secure Agentic Systems/Securing the Pipeline/Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

30 minLesson 1 of 6

Threat Modeling for Agentic Pipelines

Here's the thing nobody talks about when they demo AI agents: that agent has access. It can read your source code. It can call APIs. It can write files. Sometimes it can push to production.

And if you haven't mapped out what can go wrong, you're not building fast — you're building blind.

1 / 10

Ship it

Threat model document covering your agentic pipeline's attack surface

Build in public

Tweet: 'If your AI agents can read your codebase and push to prod, you need a threat model. Here's how to build one.'

Sandboxing and Isolation Patterns