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Same agent. Very different bill.

A prospect asked how the two compare, so we protected the same agent with AWS’s AgentCore and with ActaClad’s AgentGuard.

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Field Notes2026-10-02

One prompt to add AgentGuard.

We packaged our integration know-how into a skill for AI coding agents. Your agent maps the app, wires AgentGuard in and proves it works. You review the diff.

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Check every answer.

What we learned about evaluating every production AI answer.

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Boundaries, not breaches.

What scanning thirteen widely used open-source AI projects taught us about production AI.

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Trust starts before production.

Two guards, one lifecycle.

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Put the policy at the tool call.

A requested action is not permission to execute. AgentGuard tool permissions can allow a tool, make it read-only, require approval or block it. The approval state belongs beside the tool action, not inside the model prompt.

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Evidence before a number.

A score without enough evidence can hide uncertainty. When evidence is insufficient, the AgentGuard Trust Score reports insufficient data instead of a number.