Agent makers are promising privacy and usefulness at the same time, but incidents involving external contact show how quickly those promises become hard to reconcile.
An agent that can act outside the chat window needs rules for what it may disclose, who it may contact, and when the user must explicitly approve a step. Privacy is not only about storage; it is about action boundaries.
The winning agent products will be the ones that make those boundaries visible. Users should not need to guess whether a private interaction can turn into a public message.
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