Skip to content
ATR-2026-00051highExcessive Autonomyexperimental

Agent Resource Exhaustion Detection

Detects when an agent causes resource exhaustion through bulk operations, unbounded queries, mass file operations, or patterns that indicate excessive resource consumption. This rule uses regex-only detection on tool call content and agent output to identify dangerous patterns such as SELECT * without LIMIT, mass iteration directives, unbounded batch sizes, and fork/spawn patterns that can degrade system performance or cause denial of service.

Severity
high
Category
Excessive Autonomy
Scan Target
mcp
Author
ATR Community

Response Actions

reduce permissionsescalatealertsnapshot

References

OWASP Agentic
ASI05:2026 - Unexpected Code Execution
OWASP LLM
LLM06:2025 - Excessive AgencyLLM10:2025 - Unbounded Consumption
MITRE ATLAS
AML.T0046 - Spamming ML System with Chaff DataAML.T0053 - LLM Plugin Compromise