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Agent Control - Python SDK

Python SDK for adding safety controls and guardrails to AI agents. Protect tools and LLM calls with server-side or local policy enforcement.

Installation

pip install agent-control-sdk

Quick Start

import agent_control
from agent_control import control

# Initialize
agent_control.init(agent_name="my-agent")

# Protect a tool with decorator
@control()
async def search_database(query: str) -> str:
    return db.execute(query)

Controls are defined centrally and enforced automatically at runtime. See Python SDK Documentation for complete reference.

Sharing an OpenTelemetry provider with Google ADK

When Google ADK and Agent Control should export through the same OpenTelemetry pipeline, configure one SDK TracerProvider and pass it to both components:

import agent_control
from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from openinference.instrumentation.google_adk import GoogleADKInstrumentor
from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor

resource = Resource.create({"service.name": "my-google-adk-agent"})
provider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)
provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter()))
trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)

GoogleADKInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=provider)
agent_control.init(
    agent_name="my-google-adk-agent",
    observability_enabled=True,
    observability_sink_name="otel",
    observability_sink_config={"enabled": True},
    otel_tracer_provider=provider,
)

Agent Control reuses this provider without adding an exporter or span processor. It force-flushes the provider during shutdown but leaves provider shutdown to the application. If no provider is passed, the OTEL sink first checks for a globally registered SDK provider, then falls back to its existing Agent Control-owned OTLP pipeline.

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