How It Works
Tool-call gating
A safety check that sits between an AI agent and its tools: before a risky action (spending money, deleting files, sending a message) runs, the request is paused and checked by rules or a human who can approve or block it.
Origin · no single documented coiner
A descriptive engineering term used across AI-agent safety writing from about 2024; no single documented coiner.
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