Apple limits "full disk access" on Mac — agent risk made a platform decision
From the AI digest for 2026-10-02
Apple announced new controls on macOS full disk access in a Friday update, citing risks posed by AI agents (Verge ~4:08 PM ET, following TechCrunch's report): limits "to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so" deliberately. Companion framing in the same cluster (TechCrunch-tier): the agent era is forcing OS-level permission models that were built for apps, not autonomous software.
What's genuinely new: the first major OS platform to restructure a security permission specifically in response to agent risk — the defense-side counterpart to the agentic-attacks offender record (MDDR, below). Opened watch thread: agent-os-guardrails.
Watch: which apps get re-prompted, how agent platforms (Muse's Mac app was already reading full context) adapt, and whether Microsoft/Google follow.
Links: Verge · companion TechCrunch-reported item (feed stories 6444 ×2)