Google DevelopersEric Dong, Shubham Saboo10 min readintermediate
Build zero-trust AI agents that judge intent, not just syntax
Summary
Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform adds three managed runtime controls—Model Armor, Semantic Governance Policies, and Agent Anomaly Detection—to protect LLM agents from prompt injection, social‑engineering refunds, and multi‑turn abuse, moving enforcement out of agent code.
- Model Armor screens inbound prompts and outbound responses at the gateway, blocking jailbreaks and redacting sensitive data before the model runs.
- Semantic Governance Policies let business owners write natural‑language constraints that evaluate each tool call against intent, denying disallowed refunds without code changes.
- Agent Anomaly Detection watches session telemetry across turns, flagging cumulative abuse that single‑turn checks miss.
- All three controls are enforced by the platform’s Agent Gateway, separating governance ownership from the agent developer.
Teams deploying LLM‑powered agents need runtime safeguards that understand intent and behavior, not just static syntax checks, to prevent sophisticated attacks.
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