# What production AI is teaching us.

Research

Research, field notes and perspectives from systems we build, test and operate.

## One prompt to add AgentGuard.

Field Notes · 2026-10-02

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.

Harish R · AI Engineer

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/agentguard-skill)


## Same agent. Very different bill.

Research · Featured · 2026-10-02

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

Sajith Seelan · AI/ML Research Engineer

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/agentcore-vs-agentguard)


## Check every answer.

Research

What we learned about evaluating every production AI answer.

Durairaj Viswanathan · Co-Founder & CTO

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/check-every-answer)


## Boundaries, not breaches.

Research

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

Durairaj Viswanathan · Co-Founder & CTO

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/boundaries)


## Trust starts before production.

Perspectives

Two guards, one lifecycle.

Durairaj Viswanathan · Co-Founder & CTO

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/trust-before-production)


## Put the policy at the tool call.

Field Notes

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.

ActaClad

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/policy-at-the-tool)


## Evidence before a number.

Field Notes

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

ActaClad

[Read article](https://www.actaclad.com/research/evidence-before-score)


[Contact ActaClad](https://www.actaclad.com/contact)