Guardians of Agents

A weekly briefing on agentic AI security

AI agents now act on our behalf. Here is how they fail, and how to keep them in check.

Guardians of Agents publishes a free, weekly briefing on agentic AI security: why agents are dangerous, real incidents and their aftermath, kill switches and guardrails, red teaming, the industry and research landscape, and where it is all heading.

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Issue 01 · Why Agents Are Dangerous

Why AI Agents Are Dangerous: Autonomy, Access and Untrusted Input

An AI agent is a language model with tools, memory and permission to act without asking. That combination turns every web page and email it reads into a possible command. Here is why, and what this series will cover.

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  1. Sep 24We Mapped 1,472 Papers on AI Agent Security. Here Is What Works.Research & Future
  2. Sep 28The Risk Map for AI Agents: OWASP ASI01-ASI10, ATLAS and MAESTROWhy Agents Are Dangerous
  3. Oct 5When Coding Agents Go Wrong: The 2025-2026 Incident FileIncidents & Aftermath

Research atlas

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A classified map of 1,472 papers on attacking, defending and controlling AI agents: method families, maturity, results under adaptive attack, and open problems. Searchable, with a downloadable dataset.

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