Applied AI·Agents
you put deterministic checks around the model, allowlists and schema validation and refusal filters, because you cannot rely on it policing itself.
Guardrails
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Deterministic checks wrapped around a probabilistic core: input filters, output validators, action allowlists, spend and iteration budgets. The engineering stance that makes agents shippable; never rely on the prompt alone to prevent an action that code can prevent.