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Tran Tien Van
Tran Tien Van

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Production AI agents need permissions before prompts

DeepMind's Running Guide agent and Google's A24 collaboration are useful signals for builders because both move agents out of chat and into higher-stakes workflows.

For engineers, the takeaway is practical:

  • Map what the agent can observe before choosing a model
  • Define allowed actions and blocked actions
  • Add human review states where judgment or consent matters
  • Log decisions, failures, fallbacks, and escalations
  • Compare LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, native function calling, and MCP based on runtime control, not popularity

Running Guide points at real-time spatial guidance for blind and low-vision runners using computer vision and spatial audio on a chest-mounted Pixel 10 Pro. The A24 deal points at creative workflow tooling, including AI filmmaking tools and storyboard generation. Different domains, same engineering constraint: autonomy has to be bounded before it reaches users.


📖 Read the full guide → DeepMind's Running Guide agent and the A24 partnership: what real-time spatial and creative AI agents mean for engineers

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