AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses
DLE doesn’t do the enforcement itself, AWS explained in its announcement writeup - that’s up to the harness itself - but it does check each tool call against policies defined using Dogwood, the open source governance language that AWS published in August. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); When AWS introduced Dogwood, it open sourced the language and reference tooling and added support for it to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore; DLE’s release makes the policy engine directly embeddable into agent harnesses. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); A key feature of both DLE and Dogwood is their awareness of temporal conditions.
- ▪DLE doesn’t do the enforcement itself, AWS explained in its announcement writeup - that’s up to the harness itself - but it does check each tool call against policies defined using Dogwood, the open source governance language that AWS publi
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- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); A key feature of both DLE and Dogwood is their awareness of temporal conditions.
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