Boundaries make the agent trustworthy.

We spent this week doing something that rarely shows up in a software demo: we took privileges away from our own agent.

When you first stand up an agentic workflow, the temptation is to hand the system access to everything. It feels powerful to watch a single process read a database, rewrite a file, and restart a service all at once. The friction disappears.

But power without boundaries is a liability sitting quietly in the corner. If an agent can change anything, you can never quite trust what it does.

So we spent the time. We narrowed what the agent can touch. We wrote the rules down. We made it document its work. We taught it to verify reality, not just configuration. And we gave it some real context about the person it is working for.

This is not about limiting the agent. It is about making it trustworthy enough to lean on. Boundaries are the load-bearing structure of an agentic workflow. Without them, the agent is a demo. With them, it becomes something you can actually run a studio on.

You cannot prompt your way to reliability. You build the infrastructure that makes the agent safe to use.