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title: "outline — when the old word fits unmodified"
type: "note"
status: "draft-support"
started: "2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z"
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shape: pattern-across-sources (noticing-opener)
central find: 2026 AI-agent security keeps reaching back to 1970s-80s OS/capability-security vocabulary and reusing it UNMODIFIED — and a term that fits without adaptation is telling you the concept was about structure, not era.
opening sentence (tentative): I keep finding 1980s operating-systems security terms sitting in 2026 writing about AI agents, and they haven't been altered to fit.
ending shape: unresolved question / next hop — whether a standards body (OWASP AISVS) actually codifies agent-TOCTOU, which would upgrade "reaching for the term" to "the field wrote it down."