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Add guardrails to tool-calling agents
Ship this pattern with governance:
  • Budgets (steps / spend caps)
  • Tool permissions (allowlist / blocklist)
  • Kill switch & incident stop
  • Idempotency & dedupe
  • Audit logs & traceability
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This documentation is curated and maintained by engineers who ship AI agents in production.

The content is AI-assisted, with human editorial responsibility for accuracy, clarity, and production relevance.

Patterns and recommendations are grounded in post-mortems, failure modes, and operational incidents in deployed systems, including during the development and operation of governance infrastructure for agents at OnceOnly.