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Postgres RLS Silently Breaks AI Agent Queues

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A Postgres Row-Level Security policy caused an AI agent to see an empty queue and idle, while jobs piled up. The orchestrator received no error because RLS filters rows silently. The fix: add a canary count to verify read access.

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A cautionary tale: silent failures in database permissions can cripple autonomous systems without triggering alarms.
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Your AI agent checked its queue, found nothing, and went back to sleep. The queue was full. →
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