Guide

Commerce Agent Guardrails

Design spend, merchant, category and human-approval controls that are explicit enough to enforce and audit.

Why it matters

Useful guardrails translate policy into concrete constraints: maximum spend, currency, allowed merchants, blocked categories, approval thresholds and escalation conditions.

How it works

Human-in-the-loop controls work best when the handoff point is explicit and the human sees the exact item, merchant, amount, policy exception and consequences before approval.

Practical takeaway

A generated policy document has no enforcement effect until the purchasing application applies it consistently to every relevant action.

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