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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 19, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Paper Pushes Agent Safety From Prompt Filtering to Fail-Closed Control of Tool Actions
The proposal wraps agent tool calls in action boundaries, trusted provenance and execution that stops by default when a check fails.
A preprint on runtime governance for agentic AI begins with an observation that anyone running AI agents in production has likely already made. When a system can modify files, send messages, launch jobs and change the state of a workflow, t…
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