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Research8 min read

MITRE ATLAS for practitioners: what to instrument first

ATLAS is comprehensive but sprawling. Here are the six tactics that matter for production agents — and how to map detections to each.

Dr. Elena Markov

Chief Scientist, Guardra AI

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Playbook7 min read

The tool-call security playbook

Tools are execution primitives. Treat them like shell commands. Here's a 12-check list that will stop 80% of agent misuse before it happens.

Jamal Okafor

VP Engineering, Guardra AI

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Threat Brief6 min read

RAG poisoning: field notes from 38 incidents

The attack is simple: plant a document your victim's agent will retrieve. The defense is surprisingly neglected.

Ramiz Rafiq

Founder, Guardra AI

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Playbook5 min read

Eval-driven development: TDD for LLM apps

Write the eval first. Write the prompt second. Ship with confidence. A practical guide from teams doing it.

Dr. Elena Markov

Chief Scientist, Guardra AI

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Playbook6 min read

CI gating for AI-generated code

Your engineers are merging AI output at 2x human velocity. Your review process is the one from 2021. Here's how to gate.

Jamal Okafor

VP Engineering, Guardra AI

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Playbook9 min read

How to audit an AI agent in 2026

A practitioner's walkthrough: what to look at, in what order, and which attack classes actually matter in production.

Ramiz Rafiq

Founder, Guardra AI

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Research7 min read

The only LLM reliability metrics that matter

Faithfulness, hallucination rate, tool-call correctness, injection resilience. Everything else is vanity.

Dr. Elena Markov

Chief Scientist, Guardra AI

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Data6 min read

12.8 million secrets leaked to LLMs last year. Here's the pattern.

A year of scanning prompts, memory stores, and logs across 4.2M repos. The leaks follow three predictable shapes.

Jamal Okafor

VP Engineering, Guardra AI

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