Your AI Agent Just Deleted Something It Shouldn't Have? Here's How to Prevent It
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You gave your agent access to the filesystem. It was supposed to clean up temp files. Instead, it deleted something important. Or it called an external API using production credentials when you only meant to test it. Or executed a shell command that made sense in isolation — but was catastrophic in context. These aren't edge cases. They're predictable failure modes. The Missing Layer in Most Agent Architectures When building an AI agent, most developers focus on three things: