Side Effect Guardrails: Stopping Destructive Actions

Security · updated Mon Feb 23

Implementing checks to prevent agents from unintentionally deleting or modifying critical data.

Steps

  1. Categorize tools into safe and destructive.
  2. Require approval for destructive calls.
  3. Implement a dry-run mode for write tools.
  4. Use soft-deletes for agent-managed databases.
  5. Monitor volume of change per session.

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