{
  "id": 8132837,
  "title": "Autonomous agents need guardrails, not line-by-line scripts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/autonomous-agents-need-guardrails-not-line-by-line-scripts",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-18T00:10:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/jones_chen_592558a62a5c44/autonomous-agents-need-guardrails-not-line-by-line-scripts-4g1c"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Autonomous does not mean uncontrollable. Cogweald’s model can decide what happens next in a world. It cannot change the database schema, bypass authorization, arbitrarily rewrite published content, or turn unvalidated text directly into system state. The guardrails live outside the model: Output must match a structured schema. World state can only change through the server-side persistence layer.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}