Tag: Agent Defense

Sep 22
Negative Constraints Engineering: Training and Prompting Agents to Defend Their Own Boundaries

In classical software engineering, boundary enforcement is handled by negative logic gates, try/catch exception handlers, and explicit input validation blocks. When a function receives a parameter that violates domain logic (e.g., passing a negative integer to an inventory allocation module), the program halts execution or returns an explicit error code. The application does not attempt […]