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What Are AI Agent Guardrails?

How Jacqueline V. Twillie explained it live with Women Applying AI on October 7, 2026.

By Jacqueline V. TwillieNovember 5, 20261 min readDefinition
Quick definition

One of the things that I like to do with my agents is I give them guardrails. I tell them what they can do and what they can't do.

What she said about it

This is just as important of telling your agent what you want it to achieve.

Under tool management, I'm going to select read only tools. There are six options underneath there. I can then restrict or give permission to my agent on what I wanted to read only. Beneath that section, there are write/delete tools.

The moment she used it

I tell them what they can do and what they can't do.

Hear it at 41:26 in the recording. The clip is on the session page.

Where to read more

Build Your First AI Agent in One Hour: the full build, with the clips, the prompts and the transcript.

Related reading: What Are AI Operating Rules?.

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