LLM06: Excessive Agency
Tools and plugins granted to an agent exceed the principle of least privilege.
Last reviewed June 2026
The gap LLM06 closes
Excessive Agency sits in the agent permissions surface, and OWASP LLM Top 10 rates it critical. Tools and plugins granted to an agent exceed the principle of least privilege. For teams shipping LLM and agentic features, a control like this is only as good as the evidence that it was actually tested - an unverified control is a finding waiting for an auditor.
How Penaxtra delivers LLM06
Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target excessive agency directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a LLM06 result is a tested verdict, not a guess. Every relevant finding is created with the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM06 identifier already attached, so it lands in the audit-evidence pack mapped to the control rather than as a screenshot someone has to translate later. Where the same weakness touches another framework, the cross-framework overlap means one finding satisfies several control cells at once.
LLM06 capabilities
Findings tagged with the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM06 control identifier
Severity context (OWASP LLM Top 10 rates this critical)
Cross-framework overlap so one finding maps to several control cells
PDF and JSON audit-evidence export with the control id attached
LLM06 compliance mapping
Findings for LLM06 carry the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM06 identifier and cross-map to the related controls in the other five frameworks Penaxtra covers.
Frequently asked
What is LLM06 (Excessive Agency)?
Tools and plugins granted to an agent exceed the principle of least privilege. It is part of OWASP LLM Top 10, rated critical.
How does Penaxtra test for LLM06?
Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target excessive agency directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a LLM06 result is a tested verdict, not a guess.
Does a finding for LLM06 help with an audit?
Yes. Each finding is tagged with the OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM06 control identifier and exported in the PDF and JSON evidence pack, so it maps straight onto the auditor control list instead of needing manual translation.
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