Workflow Wednesday: Give Every AI Action a Luggage Tag

Art by @basilonmypizza: https://lnkd.in/eF8FkWzN - https://basilhefti.ch/

When you hand your luggage to an airline, your bag gets a tag.

The tag says where it belongs. And each time the bag changes hands, a system can check: is this the right bag, on the right route, going to the right destination?

AI agents need something similar.

When an agent sends an email, changes a price, modifies data, or executes code, the action must carry its identity and constraints with it. What is the task? What resources may it access? What actions/destinations are allowed?

Let’s take the recent Hugging Face incident as an example.

The OpenAI evaluation environment deliberately has no internet access. And the agents discovered a way to reach internet

A useful checkpoint notices: this request comes from an evaluation workload. Reject.

The tag gives each checkpoint enough context to decide whether an action is still on its permitted route.

As AI moves from answering to executing, this gets important.

The questions are: Can we trace it? Can we constrain it? Can we stop or reverse it?

If you deploy agents today: what “luggage tags” do you attach to them?

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Art: https://lnkd.in/eF8FkWzN https://basilhefti.ch/