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Guardrails for LLM Agentic Systems: Layered Defense

May 4, 2026·7 min·AI

Safety instructions in a system prompt are not sufficient for production. Benchmark agents still behave unsafely in a significant fraction of cases. The fix is layered defense: prompt-level, tool-level, model-level, and system-level guardrails stacked so any one failure is caught by the next.

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