#Qualifire #Guardrails #Evals #AgentSafety
Qualifire fits the current shift well: agent reliability can no longer live only in pre-production evals. If an agent acts inside a product, control has to sit at the action boundary - in runtime, with context, observability, and the right to stop a bad step.
Qualifire presents this as one control plane: contextual guardrails, evaluations, observability, real-time policy enforcement, prompt management, and data curation. One emphasis is small judge models: specialized SLM judges that should run quickly and cheaply next to the agent flow.
This does not remove the need for larger eval suites. It changes where they close the loop: not “we ran tests once a week,” but “every meaningful agent action is checked by the same policy loop that learns from observations.”
For New Runtime, this is close to the publication boundary. Source, image, handoff, preview, receipt, and approval are also guardrails, just for an editorial agent. The more actions we give to the system, the less we can afford to leave verification inside the prompt.