Production Concerns: Scaling Supervisor/Guardian Agents for Security
its_mike_again · reddit · 2026-08-29
An engineer shares a production scare: an AI agent chained multiple tool calls into an unintended sequence, though nothing unauthorized occurred. As workflows scaled from 2 to 30, per-tool auth feels insufficient. The author considers a "Guardian Agent" but worries about false positives blocking legitimate workflows. Key questions: evaluating based on history context, and balancing security with usability.
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