The Agent Action Guard journal / Field notes 001—004

Difficult agent problems.
Practical solutions.

Frameworks keep getting better at making decisions. Building reliable, secure systems still requires controlling what happens after those decisions. These guides turn failure modes into concrete engineering choices.

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How to secure MCP tool calls before an AI agent executes them

Build secure MCP tool execution with argument validation, least privilege, action screening, approvals, safe failure handling, and bounded access.

A discoverable MCP tool may have more privileges than a task requires.Read solution →