# AI Agent Security Cheat Sheet — Output Validation Pipeline

> Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```python import json import re from pydantic import BaseModel, validator from typing import Optional, List class AgentToolCall(BaseModel): tool_name: str parameters: dict reasoning: Optional[str] @validator('tool_name') def validat

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## Provenance

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Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```python
import json
import re
from pydantic import BaseModel, validator
from typing import Optional, List

class AgentToolCall(BaseModel):
    tool_name: str
    parameters: dict
    reasoning: Optional[str]

    @validator('tool_name')
    def validate_tool_allowed(cls, v):
        allowed_tools = ["search", "read_file", "calculator", "get_weather"]
        if v not in allowed_tools:
            raise ValueError(f"Tool '{v}' is not in allowed list")
        return v

    @validator('parameters')
    def validate_no_sensitive_data(cls, v):
        sensitive_patterns = [
            r'api[_-]?key', r'password', r'secret', r'token',
            r'credential', r'private[_-]?key'
        ]
        params_str = json.dumps(v).lower()
        for pattern in sensitive_patterns:
            if re.search(pattern, params_str):
                raise ValueError("Parameters contain potentially sensitive data"
```

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