SScott Cochran13h ago · 8 min readTOPAK: Every Agent Is ByzantineTL;DR TOPAK is an architecture pattern for agentic AI collaboration that is inspired by "Safe by Design" principles. T (TLA+): Formally verifiable state evolution that is testable, checkable, and som1grippinghand.dev
MMichael Petler2d ago · 9 min readWhy My AI Agents Aren't Allowed to Make Things UpThe first time an AI assistant handed me a confident, beautifully formatted answer that turned out to be invented, it wasn't a disaster. It was a phone number. It looked right, it had the right area cmichaelpetler.hashnode.dev
CCaterfli3d ago · 8 min readWhy an AI Agent Should Never Be Its Own Security GuardImagine giving an employee the keys to your company database, asking them to make important business decisions, and then telling them to check with themselves before doing anything dangerous. Sounds rcaterfli.hashnode.dev
AAritra Chakraborty3d ago · 5 min readGoogle Research Proposes Contextual Integrity Policy Engines and Multi-Agent Benchmarks for Agentic PrivacyAI agents are becoming increasingly capable of doing things on our behalf. They can read documents, access databases, call APIs, use external tools, communicate with other agents, and execute long-runaidatalegends.hashnode.dev
NNagappan S6d ago · 8 min readGuardrails: Validating What Goes Into (and Comes Out of) an LLMYou ship a support chatbot on top of an LLM. Week one, someone pastes a prompt injection hidden inside a "customer complaint" and gets it to reveal your system prompt. Week two, a different user asks nagspidey.hashnode.dev
CCaterfliOct 20 · 13 min readAn AI Agent Is Only as Safe as the Permissions Behind ItGiving an AI agent access to your business systems is easy to imagine. Knowing exactly what it can do when nobody is watching is the harder part. There's a question I think every business should ask bcaterfli.hashnode.dev
NNash HasanOct 13 · 9 min readSelf-replicating AI: What Anthropic's warning means for campus cybersecurityAnthropic's new research suggests that future small AI models could spread across poorly secured connected devices and run on that hardware without depending on a data center.[1] It does not demonstrablog.edtechniti.com
SShivam KumarOct 12 · 3 min readContainment Is the New Alignment: Inside Anthropic's Agent Wake-Up CallFor three years, the AI industry's safety conversation was about what models say. This week it became, irreversibly, about what agents do. On October 10, 2026, Anthropic disclosed that its own evaluatshivaysinghrajput.hashnode.dev
SSai Ram KothaOct 9 · 8 min readWho Gets Access? A Week of Gated, Open and Unreleased AIThree big AI announcements landed within a day of each other this week. They look unrelated: a batch of math papers, a cybersecurity access program, and a new open model. But they answer the same quessairamkotha.hashnode.dev
KKevin KiruiOct 3 · 6 min readA Valid Model Response Can Still Be an Unsafe OneI ran into this while building Maintenance Triage (link), a prototype that turns free-text hospital equipment reports into routing decisions. It is a working prototype and has not been deployed in a hkevin-kirui-ai.hashnode.dev