Malice in the Mesh // 01: Introduction to Defensible Architecture for Agents

The purpose of the Malice in the Mesh series is to give us a toolbox to look at artificial intelligence security beyond hype. Within this series, we will be taking a journey with a few stops along the way. We will be building conceptual frameworks foundational to modern day artificial intelligence development and into AI security. Our first number of installments will be a dissection of artificial intelligence across several planes. While we will conduct exercises of exploration in various components and structures existing within general agent architecture, it’s important to remember that at the end of the day, they cohesively form one holistic system – the same as human anatomy comprising separately classified systems of apparatus yet they operate in tandem as one. Seamless enough that we don’t even consciously give thought to them as separate – that is until something goes wrong. We need to understand where the malice can fit in the mesh. We will be diving into governing non-malicious models. We will be extending our knowledge and understanding into detection engineering of black hat LLM models as well. First, let us lay the foundation and dive into the fundamental architecture of every agent, a process akin to the human respiratory apparatus.