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Guardian agents supervise AI agents to ensure their actions align with enterprise goals, policies, and risk boundaries.

The Gartner Market Guide for Guardian Agents examines this emerging market category and outlines how guardian agents monitor and block risky actions. The report examines market dynamics, key findings, recommendations, and strategic planning assumptions for AI leaders evaluating guardian agent capabilities.

In this report, you can learn to:

• Understand risks introduced by AI agents that outpace traditional human review
  
• Evaluate guardian agent capabilities across platforms and hosting environments
  
• Assess independent guardian agents for cross-cloud governance and policy enforcement
  
• Support continuous AI agent discovery, monitoring, and improvement