Designing Agent Tasks: Scope, Tools, and Guardrails

Quick Summary

Agent design is the discipline of limiting goals, tools, steps, data, and authority until success can be measured. Guardrails should exist in software and permissions, not only in a prompt.

What you will learn

·Write a bounded agent task contract with measurable completion conditions
·Apply least privilege, allowlists, approvals, budgets, and stop controls
·Design test cases for normal, edge, misuse, and failure scenarios