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AI Agent Runtime Guardrails: Why Policy at the Model Layer Fails and Policy at the Execution Layer Wins
AI Agent Runtime Guardrails: Why Policy at the Model Layer Fails and Policy at the Execution Layer Wins
Static system prompts are advisory, not architectural. LLM guardrails operate at the same abstraction as the attack. The only deterministic defense is policy at the execution layer — where tool calls become real actions against real resources, with sub-millisecond evaluation.