{"slug": "your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column", "title": "Your AI database agent should not see every column", "summary": "The article warns that exposing unnecessary database columns to AI agents creates a major data leak risk, as a single customer table often contains both useful and sensitive fields. It recommends granting AI agents access only to approved column projections rather than raw tables, emphasizing that the model itself should not decide which sensitive fields are safe to view.", "body_md": "The fastest way to leak sensitive data through an AI database agent is to expose columns the model never needed.\nTable access is too broad.\nA customer table can contain useful business fields and risky fields at the same time:\nThe agent may need the first four. It probably does not need the rest.\nFor production MCP database access, I would rather expose approved projections than raw tables:\nLonger version: Column-level permissions for AI database agents\nThe model should not be the thing deciding whether a sensitive field is safe to see.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/mads_hansen_27b33ebfee4c9/your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column-4fi5", "published_at": "2026-05-23 00:15:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-23 00:32:23.169726+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "cybersecurity", "data", "enterprise-software"], "entities": ["MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-ai-database-agent-should-not-see-every-column.jsonld"}}