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Cisco exec: AI agents need action-level control, not just tool grants

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Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer at Cisco, emphasized the need for granular control over AI agent actions, distinguishing between granting a tool and approving specific actions. He advised implementing runtime checks for actions and token usage to prevent agents from exceeding their intended scope or budget. Patel suggested quarantining agents that are overly consumptive of tokens and building custom evaluations before deploying models to ensure performance in specific environments. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for fine-grained runtime controls on AI agents to manage actions and resource consumption effectively.

RANK_REASON Executive commentary on AI agent control and tokenomics.

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Cisco exec: AI agents need action-level control, not just tool grants

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Conor Bronsdon ·

    Check each agent action after you grant the tool

    <p>Granting an agent a tool does not approve every action that tool can perform. Check the action and the class of target before the call, and monitor overly consumptive token use so you can quarantine those agents. Build evals on your own tasks before you route a prompt to a che…

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