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How should AI agents safely execute real API actions?

OpenAI Developer Community May 2, 2026
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zsoltfazekas93: > The model should never see raw API credentials, OAuth tokens, JWTs, service tokens, or long-lived secrets. Of course not and not only completely unnecessary, but you’d never want an agent to have to work through predictable authentication steps itself anyway, let alone expose credentials to a remote LLM. You simply deal with that with deterministic code within a local tool function on your own server.

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