Agent Guardrails

Summary

Constraints that stop an agent from taking unsafe, unintended or excessively costly actions — critical once an agent can actually execute real actions, not just generate text.

• 1Add action allow-lists and confirmation steps before an agent executes irreversible actions.
• 2Set hard limits on tool-call loops, cost and execution time.
• 3Test your agent with adversarial or malformed inputs to see where guardrails are needed.