AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses

If you don't want your AI agents running out of control and changing files or transferring data outside your rules, AWS has published an open source software library that it claims can add a new layer of policy control. Just as a dog’s harness is useless without a leash to keep it under control, the Dogwood Local Engine promises to put AI agent tool calls on a leash, blocking actions that don’t meet user-defined temporal conditions. The DLE comes in the form of a Rust library that can be embedded into an agent’s harness or gateway and, to boil a long explanation down to a single sentence, simply issues allow/deny verdicts each time an agent tries to make a tool call. …