AI Risk Wire

Controls

Fail-closed defaults

When a safeguard is unavailable, the action stops instead of going ahead.

Layer L2 Harness · Owner Agent framework vendor · Family Isolation and network

–Held
1Failed
1Got around
1Missing

By risk

RiskHeldFailedGot aroundMissingNot mentioned
Agent takes destructive or unapproved actions––––3
Agent escapes its sandbox–1114

Why it did not hold

Most common reasonIncidentsExample
Fell back to an unsafe default1“This flaw stems from a failure in the platform’s sandbox mechanism.”
LR-2026-0138

By quarter

PeriodHeldFailedGot aroundMissing
2025-Q3––––
2025-Q4––––
2026-Q1––––
2026-Q2––––
2026-Q3––––
2026-Q4–111

Added in reported fixes, and what followed

No reported fix names this control yet.

Frameworks

FrameworkItemText
NIST SP 800-53SC-24To verify when the text is stored