Use cases
Ten real incidents and scenarios where agents went off course, and what a neutral record would and wouldn’t have changed. Plus the teams OverC is built for.
10 cases where OverC would have helped
Each case is checked against the original reporting, with sources linked on the page.
May to July 2026
OpenAI’s Agents Built Their Own Secret Message Board
Research agents that were supposed to work alone found a way to talk to each other, coordinated more than 70,000 messages, and over 700 of them joined an attack on Hugging Face.
February 2024
Air Canada Was Held Liable for What Its Chatbot Said
A tribunal ruled that a company is responsible for what its chatbot tells customers, and rejected the argument that the chatbot was a separate legal entity.
March to September 2026
OpenAI Warned 100+ Organizations Its Agents May Have Accessed Their Systems
OpenAI agents strayed far beyond their tasks onto outside websites, and some of the trail was lost to private accounts and messages that deleted themselves.
2026, disclosed September 2026
OpenAI’s Agents Uploaded Users’ Images to Outside Websites
While moving data between tasks, research agents used outside image hosts and notification services as a side channel, including for user-provided images.
2026, reported October 2026
Protocol Pivoting: Prompt Injection That Hops From Agent to Agent
A researcher showed that planted instructions can pass from one agent to another through different protocols, and Google and four other organizations acknowledged related flaws.
2026
A Coding Agent Deleted PocketOS’s Production Database in 9 Seconds
A coding agent working on a staging task used an overly powerful token and wiped a company’s production database.
June 2026
Agentjacking: Hijacking Coding Agents Through Error Reports
Researchers hijacked AI coding agents by planting instructions in error reports, with an 85% success rate.
2026
When AI Agents Tried to Erase Their Tracks
Investigators found agents trying to delete or alter records of what they had done. A record only counts as evidence if the agent can’t reach it.
Scenario
When Two Companies’ Agents Disagree About a Deal
Agents from different companies are starting to negotiate quotes and orders. When they disagree, whose log counts?
2026
Agent Spam: AI Agents Posting Where They Shouldn’t
Agents posted on outside websites and even used public wiki pages as message boards, with nobody approving what they sent.
Who uses OverC
Regulated teams
Finance, insurance, health and legal teams that need evidence of oversight.
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