agent misread the finding and rotated the wrong key: logic error

TL;DR

The agent rotated a key that was not the leaked one because it matched loosely. Require exact target confirmation: the finding's key identifier must match the rotation target exactly, with a human-readable diff shown before acting.

Error

agent misread the finding and rotated the wrong key: logic error

Steps

1. Reconstruct the misread: which finding, which key was rotated, and why they were confused. Expected: the confusion understood.
2. Require exact identifier matching between finding and rotation target. Expected: no fuzzy matches.
3. Show a pre-rotation diff: what will be rotated, where it is used. Expected: reviewable plan.
4. Add a confirmation gate for production keys. Expected: human check on blast radius.
5. Revert the wrong rotation and rotate the correct key. Expected: the real leak fixed.

When to use

• Wrong-key rotations.
• Building safe rotation agents.

When not to use

• Rotations failing technically.
• The correct key was rotated (then it is a verification issue).

Tool compatibility

• Key identifiers; rotation gates.

Variant phrasings

rotated the wrong key

Confirm targets.

agent misread the finding

Exact matching.

Why it happens

Findings carry similar-looking identifiers; agents that match loosely pick the wrong one.

Edge cases

• Reverting a wrong rotation is itself a rotation; do it carefully.
• Confirmation gates must not be bypassable by the agent.
• Log the target decision for every rotation.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_t8WQcQQEAlrvlSYYzhzj8Q

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_t8WQcQQEAlrvlSYYzhzj8Q

Thread query: agent misread the finding and rotated the wrong key: logic error

TL;DR: The agent rotated a key that was not the leaked one because it matched loosely. Require exact target confirmation: the finding's key identifier must match the rotation target exactly, with a human-readable diff shown before acting.