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Introducing the Dogwood Local Engine: temporal governance for agent actions (AWS Open Source Blog)
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AWS shipped a local engine for Dogwood, the open source agent governance language it released in August. Temporal conditions let a policy refer to the agent's past actions and how those turned out.
In plain words
- The Dogwood Local Engine is a new tool for controlling which actions artificial intelligence is allowed to take.
- Its rules can refer to what the system did earlier and how those actions turned out.
- Developers can make permission for the next action depend on whether earlier work succeeded.
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