Why is there not a deterministic firewall for AI agents?

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Summary

A developer built a deterministic firewall in Rust for AI agents that runs under 5ms, using plans, MCP lists, and taint tracking to enforce security without hallucination or latency issues.

Hi all, As there are more and more agents in the internet; Security is going to be a big problem. Currently, the problem is solved using a LLM to guard Agent but this creates the problem of hallucination and latency, so I coded a firewall in rust that runs under five miliseconds. This works by creating a plan and enforcing the plan; for per action call, this enforces using the Model context protocols list and for sequence it tracks every single tool call and data flow; there is also a taint mechanism where if the agent reads something outside of the user context, it flags and adds more security mechanism. It works by using a DAG. github: https://github.com/beebeeVB/trajeckt
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