Letting an agent invent a URL does not give that URL authority to use your network or privileged connections.

Fetching a document is network access, and a destination that looks useful can still cross an unintended boundary.

Give research and fetching tools a bounded browsing mode. Keep broad retrieval separate from systems with more powerful access.

Treat the returned content as untrusted evidence, not instructions. Maintain an owned destination policy and test where the tool refuses to connect.

A useful refusal explains the missing evidence and a safe next step. Do not hide a blocked fetch behind a confident answer or expand access just to finish the task.

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