Question 690
A Copilot-assisted software team encounters the following situation: A security team wants to limit external tool exposure when developers use agent capabilities. What should the engineer do to correct this situation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Agent external MCP connections introduce new authorization/data-exfiltration surfaces that GitHub-hosted content exclusions do not automatically control. The proposed action directly addresses the identified need: A security team wants to limit external tool exposure when developers use agent capabilities. A suitable acceptance check is: The approved agent retrieves the needed limited data but cannot call unapproved MCP write/delete methods or access excluded sensitive paths through separate tool grants.
Incorrect Answers
A single global instruction overgeneralized standards that differ by path. The specific problem here is that a broad third-party tool integration was enabled without assessing scope.
Tool availability and permissions were not established for the task. The specific problem here is that a broad third-party tool integration was enabled without assessing scope.
Individual anecdotes were treated as aggregate adoption evidence. The specific problem here is that a broad third-party tool integration was enabled without assessing scope.