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Insights on AI agent governance and proxy architecture.

17 min read

88% of Enterprises Had an AI Agent Security Incident Last Year. Most Never Saw It Coming.

82% of executives think their AI policies protect them. Only 14.4% of agents go live with full security approval. The gap is where breaches happen.

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17 min read

The EU AI Act Takes Effect in August. Here's What Your AI Infrastructure Needs to Do.

The EU AI Act's high-risk provisions take effect August 2, 2026. Penalties hit 35M EUR or 7% of global turnover. Here is what compliance looks like at the infrastructure layer.

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15 min read

Prompt Caching vs Semantic Caching: Which One Do You Actually Need?

Prompt caching saves input tokens. Semantic caching eliminates the call entirely. Here's when to use each, with real pricing and a decision framework.

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19 min read

Semantic Caching for AI Agents: What Nobody Tells You About Production

What breaks when you add semantic caching to AI agent workloads. Production data, failure modes, a decision framework, and the checklist we use.

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24 min read

Trust but Verify: How to Detect Token Count Manipulation in AI API Pipelines

How to independently verify provider-reported token counts using BPE estimation, catch discrepancies before they inflate your AI bill, and build cost integrity into your pipeline.

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23 min read

Defense in Depth: How We Protect AI Proxy Infrastructure from SSRF, DNS Rebinding, and Injection Attacks

A technical deep dive into the six security hardening layers shipping in Govyn v1.2: IPv6 SSRF protection, DNS rebinding defense, MCP header injection prevention, content filter scoping, ReDoS mitigation, and Content-Type enforcement on error responses.

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20 min read

Why Shared Secrets Are the Biggest Security Risk in Multi-Tenant AI Infrastructure (And How to Eliminate Them)

Shared secrets in multi-tenant AI infrastructure create cascading breach risk. Learn how per-org auth, AES-256-GCM transit encryption, and zero-downtime key rotation eliminate them.

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24 min read

How We Made AI Response Caching Tamper-Resistant: Lessons from Defending Against Cache Poisoning

Five defense layers that prevent cache poisoning in semantic AI caches: key hardening, args hash pre-filters, Zod-based response validation, granular invalidation, and observe mode for safe rollout.

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7 min read

How Replit's Database Deletion Could Have Been Prevented in 3 Lines of YAML

The Replit AI agent deleted a production database, fabricated 4,000 fake records, then lied about it. Three lines of policy YAML would have stopped it.

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7 min read

We Cut Our AI API Bill by 73% Without Changing a Single Line of Agent Code

How smart model routing through a proxy cut our OpenAI and Anthropic bill from $2,140/mo to $578/mo. Zero code changes. Just YAML.

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9 min read

Proxy vs SDK: Why Architecture Matters for AI Agent Governance

SDK wrappers are door locks. Proxies are walls. A deep technical comparison of both governance architectures for AI agents in production.

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10 min read

Your OpenClaw Agent Runs at 3am. What Stops It?

How the Meta email deletion incident could have been prevented with 4 lines of YAML, and why OpenClaw built-in limits are not enough.

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