The "Agentic Era" is officially here, but most enterprises are still treating AI Agents like glorified chat-bots. If you are building an Agent Mesh, you shouldn't be worried about the prompt—you should be worried about the Spine.
Hardening an AI-driven integration mesh requires shifting from "governance-as-policy" to "governance-as-engineering."
What’s inside this Reference Architecture:
- Shield & Filter Patterns: Using Granite Guardian to enforce safety without adding massive latency.
- The Falcon MCP Integration: How to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give agents a "secure window" into your legacy data without exposing the underlying database.
- Architectural Sovereignty: Moving the "Root of Trust" from the software layer down to the hardware.
The Bottom Line: If your agents can talk to your legacy systems without a "Guardian" in the middle, you don't have an architecture; you have a security breach waiting to happen.
I'm diving deep into the code on this one. Check out the full reference architecture on webMethodman.com or hit me up on LinkedIn where I'm currently discussing this with the IBM/IWHI community.
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