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# Warden Guardrails

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Warden acts as a deterministic policy enforcer for every agent action. It inspects, validates, and blocks any destructive or unauthorized operations before they reach your environment.

To start it open your terminal and write `stakpak warden`

### Example:

This runs Stakpak inside a Warden sandbox, mounts the Stakpak Token, and your AWS credentials

`stakpak warden -v ~/.stakpak/config.toml:/home/agent/.stakpak/config.toml:ro -v ~/.aws:/home/agent/.aws:ro`