Title: Discussion 15 — Where Should Guardrails Concentrate?
Course: AIINFRA 300: Agentic AI & the Model Context Protocol (MCP) > Section: Week 15 — Agent Deployment and Guardrails Introduction

💬 Discussion 15 — Where Should Guardrails Concentrate? (20 pts)

If a 10-step agent plan running at 95% per-step accuracy only succeeds end-to-end about 60% of the time, what does that imply about where in your pipeline guardrails and human checkpoints should be concentrated? Should every step get equal scrutiny, or should some steps (early steps, irreversible steps, tool calls with write access, the final output) get more? Use a concrete example — a multi-step agent workflow from this course or your own work — to argue your position. Post your initial response, then respond to at least two classmates, engaging directly with their reasoning (agree, push back, or extend their example).