Should your tool-calling agent get a guardian agent? Devs debate placement and latency
BlueberryOk8225 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A developer running a support agent that reads tickets and calls six internal tools was advised in review to add a guardian agent. Open questions: is it a second model scoring every tool call pre-execution, or a monitor watching traces and stepping in after bad patterns? And what does it do to latency when each call already takes seconds?
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