# AgentKernel: The Trust-Native Agentic Operating System > Source: > Published: 2026-09-25 03:00:01+00:00 Modern AI agents routinely cross trust boundaries: they ingest untrusted content, combine it with privileged instructions, persist intermediate beliefs in long-term memory, and invoke privileged tools. This creates an attack surface in which malicious payloads can enter through model inputs and caus