Design defense-in-depth for a browsing and tool-using agent.

Instruction: Explain how you would layer controls for an agent that reads the web and can take actions.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Explain how you would layer controls for an agent that reads the web and can take actions.

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I would layer controls around the full path: treat browsed content as untrusted, sanitize and label retrieved material, enforce policy before tool use, require approvals for risky actions, and log the chain from source content to final action.

I also want containment if one layer...

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