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Safety & Guardrails

Secure agents against prompt injection and autonomous disasters. Part of the free AI Agents Academy โ€” every lesson below is open to everyone, no signup required.

4 lessons380 XP~44 min total100% free

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  1. 01The Threat Landscape10 min ยท 90 XP

    The Lethal Trifecta Agents introduce unique security risks because they combine three things: Autonomy: They execute code over long periods without su...

  2. 02Defense in Depth12 min ยท 100 XP

    Securing the Loop You cannot rely on the LLM's built-in safety alone. You must build defenses into the orchestrator: Sandboxing: Run all agent code in...

  3. 03Red Teaming & Adversarial Testing12 min ยท 100 XP

    Breaking Your Own Agent Before Attackers Do Red teaming means systematically trying to make your agent fail, produce harmful outputs, or leak sensitiv...

  4. 04Permissions & Access Control10 min ยท 90 XP

    Least Privilege for Autonomy The principle of Least Privilege is the single most important security concept for agents. An agent should have access to...

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