Race condition in check-then-act spend-limit checks lets AI agents overspend
Many designs for gating an AI agent spending rely on separately checking a budget limit and then executing the spend, creating a time-of-check-to-time-of-use gap where concurrent or rapid actions can bypass the intended limit. This is a structural security and reliability flaw in how agentic AI systems that handle money or resource budgets are commonly architected.
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