Exploring Project Quarry
Project Quarry is a policy engine from Cisco AI Defense that decides what an AI agent is allowed to do before any tool runs. AI agents can run commands directly on the machine, and a sandbox cannot stop them if they decide to leak a credential or send data over the network. We wired Quarry into Codex to test whether an independent gate can stop credential exfiltration at the source.
CTO, Ex-Cisco TAC