Agent forwarding is an antipattern, and insecure usage of it is prevalent. Forwarding it allows anyone who has root access on the remote system to impersonate y

Agent forwarding is an antipattern, and insecure usage of it is prevalent. Forwarding it allows anyone who has root access on the remote system to impersonate you, and it can therefore be used to escalate privileges after a single system compromise. Alternatively, consider Kerberos and kinit.