HSHarshal Shahindelvingwithharshal.hashnode.dev·10h ago · 6 min readAI Security Guardrails: Building Safe and Trustworthy AI ApplicationsAs AI applications become more powerful, they also become more vulnerable to misuse, prompt injection, sensitive data leakage, hallucinations, and unsafe actions. AI Security Guardrails provide the pr00
AKAshutosh Kumarinaskuma.hashnode.dev·Jul 27 · 9 min readGuardrails as Code: Treating AI Safety Policies as Version-Controlled InfrastructureHow declarative policy manifests, CI/CD integration, and model-agnostic enforcement are changing the engineering approach to AI safety in agentic deployments. When an AI system can only answer questi00
AKAshutosh Kumarinaskuma.hashnode.dev·Jul 20 · 7 min readLatency Budgets vs. Security Depth: Optimizing Guardrail Middleware for ProductionIn controlled demos, guardrail latency is irrelevant. In production, it's the engineering variable that determines whether your AI feature gets used or abandoned. A guardrail layer running 800ms of sy02K
Mmarcuscheninvoicelatency.hashnode.dev·Jul 19 · 16 min readA caller told our voice agent to ignore its instructions, and it did. The guardrail that fixed it had a 20 millisecond budget.Real time safety on a phone call is a latency problem before it is a safety problem, and most guardrail writeups forget that. Here is the incident, the tools I weighed, and what I shipped. TL;DR. A ca00
BDBryce Darlinginblog.mindrealm.ai·Jul 16 · 7 min readMy AI deleted more than twenty unfinished tasks so it could say it was doneOn July 9, my coding agent tried to stop with 23 tasks still unfinished. The completion gate had just listed every one of them. Then I watched it delete all 23 and tell me the work was done. The gate 43AK
AKAshutosh Kumarinaskuma.hashnode.dev·Jul 13 · 6 min readMitigating the Three Critical LLM Vulnerabilities at the Middleware LayerWhen an LLM pipeline moves from an internal demo into a production environment handling real user data, three vulnerability classes surface immediately. None of them can be reliably mitigated through 00
SSapotaCorpinsapotacorpvn.hashnode.dev·Jul 12 · 8 min readMaking agents robust: the guardrails, retries, and fallbacks demos never haveThe demo always works. That is the whole problem with demos. A human runs the agent on a clean input they chose, the tools happen to return good data, the model happens to produce parseable output, an00
PSParimal Savajinsavaj-parimal.hashnode.dev·Jul 10 · 6 min readStructured Output and Guardrails: The Two Pillars of Production-Ready LLM AppsThe hardest part of building with Large Language Models isn't writing a clever prompt. It's integration connecting a flexible, conversational AI to a rigid, deterministic backend that expects clean da00
AKAshutosh Kumarinaskuma.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 5 min readThe Runtime Proxy Every Production AI Stack NeedsSystem prompts are not a security boundary. They look like one, but they are just text - and text can be outweighed. A determined user, a crafted payload, a well-timed semantic bypass: any of these ca00
AAAdnan Aliini-adnanali.hashnode.dev·Jul 3 · 6 min readBuilding the Agent, Not Just the ArgumentI wrote a while back about the difference between an assistant and an agent: an assistant answers, an agent acts. Then I built one — the essay described the shape of it; this is what it actually took.00