Masterarbeit
Guardrails for Web Agents
Research Area
Intelligent Information Management
Advisers
Lucas Schröder
researcher
Description
A recent development in the field of Web Agents is the implementation of tool-calls into web applications, such as WebMCP. These tool calls allow Web Agents to more easily interact with web applications directly, instead of relying on DOM- or vision-based approaches. While Web Agents bring new opportunities by allowing automation of workflows across web applications, they also contain risks, for instance when handling sensitive information. In this thesis, potential mitigations to these risks, such as the integration of guardrails into WebMCP tools, will be explored in a prototypical implementation of a Web Agent.
