Top AI Agent Security & Guardrails Frameworks in 2026: Defending Against Prompt Injections & Tool Hijacking As AI agents transition from read-only chatbots to autonomous actors with tool execution privileges (SQL queries, API calls, shell execution, email dispatch), application security has become the number one blocker for production deployment. A simple prompt injection against a chatbot produces bad text; a prompt injection against an agent can drop production databases, exf...