The safeguards map / 3.2 Agent harnesses
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An agent SDK whose hooks intercept the agent loop for validation and guardrails and whose interrupts pause the agent for human approval or input.
Where it sits
3.2 Agent harnesses (primary): Runs hook callbacks at points in the agent loop that can validate or cancel a step, and lets a hook or tool raise an interrupt that stops the loop until a person responds.
To add logging, validation, guardrails, or custom logic at any point in the agent loop, use hooks.
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When your agent needs human approval or input before it continues, raise an interrupt.
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Facts
- Concern
- safetysecurity
- Names the law
- no
- Subject
- agent
- Used by
- those who make it
- Runs
- at runtime
- Policy comes from
- owner-entered settings
- Can the agent bypass it
- depends
Handoffs
produces Runtime records: OpenTelemetry traces
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