the field guide

the agent.shield field guide

practical writing on securing ai agents in production — access control, human-in-the-loop review, kubernetes, databases, and audit trails. answer-first, no fluff.

how-to7 min

how to secure ai agents in kubernetes production

a practical playbook for securing ai agents that touch kubernetes: scope rbac, intercept destructive kubectl calls, and keep a human in the loop before prod changes.

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guide6 min

preventing ai agent data breaches: a security guide

how to stop ai agents from causing data breaches: limit data access, intercept destructive and exfiltrating calls, and keep an audit trail your incident team can trust.

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guide6 min

ai agent access control for devops and sre teams

build access control for ai agents the way sre teams build it for services: least privilege, short-lived scopes, and a human gate on irreversible actions.

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guide6 min

human-in-the-loop security for ai operations

what human-in-the-loop security means for ai operations, when to require a human gate, and how to add one without killing the speed that makes agents useful.

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comparison6 min

ai agent firewall vs traditional security: what's the difference

an ai agent firewall guards actions, not the perimeter. here's how it differs from wafs, iam, and network firewalls — and why agents need a new layer.

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how-to6 min

logging and auditing ai agent actions in production

how to log and audit ai agent actions in production so incident reviews take minutes, not days: capture every call, decision, and identity in one trustworthy trail.

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guide7 min

best practices for deploying ai agents safely

a checklist for deploying ai agents safely in production: scope access, gate irreversible actions, log everything, and roll out in stages from read-only to write.

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guide7 min

ai agents and database security: a practical guide

a practical guide to ai agents and database security: scope connections, intercept destructive sql, gate drops and mass updates, and log every query in production.

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use case6 min

building trust in ai automation: security workflows

trust in ai automation is earned through security workflows: visible guardrails, human approval on irreversible actions, and an audit trail that proves what happened.

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ready to put a human back in the loop?

spin up your first proxy in minutes. no agent rewrite, no new sdk — just a url your agent already knows how to call.