Authorization infrastructure for the AI agent economy
Latest articles, guides, and updates about AI agent trust, security, and the Open Agent Passport specification
TL;DR "AI agent guardrails" is crowded in 2026, but the word means different things at different layers of the stack. Four layers worth distinguishing:...
TL;DR AI agent authorization is the runtime decision layer that answers a single question: "Is this specific agent allowed to execute this specific tool call,...
TL;DR APort is pre-action authorization infrastructure for AI agents. It enforces policy before a tool call executes — not after. The core spec is the Open...
In the first quarter of 2026, three of the largest names in AI safety announced three different initiatives. Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a...
TL;DR CrewAI guardrails are most useful at the tool boundary, not in the prompt. Safe AI agents with CrewAI need runtime enforcement: a beforetoolcall decision...
TL;DR Safe AI agents with DeerFlow need more than sandboxing. They need pre-tool-call authorization at the action boundary. For production, the important...
TL;DR OpenClaw guardrails in production are not a prompt-tuning problem. They are a runtime governance problem. If you want safe AI agents with OpenClaw, put...
TL;DR The page titled Canadian Guardrails for Generative AI – Code of Practice was the 2023 consultation document, not the final framework. The operative...
Level 5 took 879 attempts. It granted zero wins. That sentence is the cleanest finding from the APort Vault CTF, and it would be easy to stop there. But the...
TL;DR A guardrail written in the system prompt is just more tokens. The model decides at inference time whether to honor it, in the same context window where...
TL;DR On October 26, 2025, I opened discussion #1701 in microsoft/agent-framework proposing an Agent Run Middleware pattern for pre-execution authorization,...
TL;DR Most AI guardrails are post-hoc: they inspect model outputs and flag bad ones. That works for chatbots. It does not work for agents that take actions....