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title: "Adaptive guardrails · Highflame Glossary"
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# Adaptive guardrails

Runtime controls that tighten themselves as new signals and attack patterns emerge, instead of relying on static rules someone has to keep updating.

Learn more: [AI Runtime Security](/blog/ai-runtime-security-how-to-protect-your-genai-stack-from-real-world-threats.md)

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### Agent Control Fabric

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### Agent governance

Controlling what an organization's agents are allowed to do and proving what they did: discover every agent, authorize each action against policy, and produce audit evidence. Distinct from AI governance's focus on model risk.

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### Agent identity

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### AI observability

Capturing and querying everything an agent does at runtime, LLM calls, tool calls, file and network activity, tied to identity, so you can ask why something happened and who did it, not just read logs.

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### Attribute-based access control (ABAC)

Authorization decisions keyed to attributes (the agent's claims, owner, trust tier, and delegation depth) rather than shared keys or static roles.

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### Authorization

Deciding whether a given actor is allowed to take a given action. Distinct from authentication (proving who you are); authorization is what an agent may do.

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