Why AI Agents Need Guardrails (Not Just Prompts)
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Why AI Agents Need Guardrails (Not Just Prompts) Your Claude agent just sent an email to your entire customer list. Your GPT-powered assistant deleted a production database. Your LangChain workflow exfiltrated API keys to a third-party service. These aren't theoretical risks. 15RL's research into AI agent failure modes documents that 73% of agent incidents occur despite safety-focused prompts. The gap isn't between "safe" and "unsafe" prompts - it's between intention and enforcement. Prompts express intent. They don't enforce boundaries.