Trust and Agent Guard

Overview

A readiness assertion is not an enforcement point. Agent Guard should evaluate exact proposed actions where tools and resources are actually used.

• Name the action, resource, data class, and delegated authority.
• Deny missing or expired authority before execution.
• Require human review for policy-defined consequential actions.
• Retain allow, deny, and approval decisions with actor and policy version.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.