Amazon patents hidden layer that checks AI agent work for errors
This filing describes a software layer that sits between AI agents and the systems they use to check if requests and responses are accurate. If it finds an error, it blocks the bad data and sends a fake message that looks like it came from the system, so the AI agent knows to try again without realizing it is being monitored.
In the filing’s own words
Disclosed are systems and methods that include an observability layer that observes requests and responses into and out of one or more artificial intelligence (“AI”) agents of an agentic network. As part of the observation, the observability layer determines if a received request/response is inaccurate. If an agent request is inaccurate, the observability layer prohibits an endpoint from receiving the agent request and sends a message to the AI agent that conforms to a schema of endpoint, such that the message appears to be sent by the endpoint. If an endpoint response is inaccurate, the observability layer prohibits the AI agent from receiving the endpoint response and sends a message to the AI agent that conforms to a schema of the endpoint, such that the message appears to be sent by the endpoint. By generating and sending messages that conform to an expected schema, the observability layer remains hidden.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method performed by an observability layer such that the observability layer remains hidden to one or more artificial intelligence (“AI”) agents of an agentic network, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at the observability layer and from an AI agent of the one or more AI agents of the agentic network, an agent request to an endpoint prior to the endpoint receiving the agent request; processing, at the observability layer, the agent request to determine that the agent request is accurate; in response to determining that the agent request is accurate, passing, from the observability layer, the agent request to the endpoint; receiving, at the observability layer and from the AI agent, an agent response to a primary requester prior to the primary requester receiving the agent response; processing, at the observability layer, the agent response and an endpoint response generated by the endpoint in response to the agent request, to determine that the agent response is inaccurate; in response to determining that the agent response is inaccurate, sending, from the observability layer, a message to the AI agent that conforms to a schema of the primary requester such that the message appears to be sent to the AI agent by the primary requester, the message indicating that the agent response is inaccurate; receiving, at the observability layer and from the AI agent, a second agent response to the primary requester prior to the primary requester receiving the second agent response; processing, at the observability layer, the second agent response and the endpoint response generated by the endpoint in response to the agent request, to determine that the second agent response is accurate; and in response to determining that the second agent response is accurate, passing, from the observability layer, the second agent response to the primary requester as responsive to the primary request.
Facts
- Company
- Amazon (Amazon Technologies, Inc.)
- Official title
- AGENT OBSERVABILITY LAYER
- Publication number
- US20260300675A1
- Application number
- 19094029
- Filed
- Mar 28, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06N 3/006 Physics & computingMore from Amazon in AI & software
- Amazon patents system that cites sources for AI answers Sep 29, 2026
- Amazon patents tech to swap words in movies using actor's voice Sep 8, 2026
- Amazon patents ML tool to add graphics to live sports from moving cameras Sep 15, 2026
- Amazon patents shopping assistant that remembers your search filters Oct 6, 2026
- Amazon patents system where AI agents split tasks and talk to each other Oct 20, 2026
Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
Patent data and drawings: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Nebula is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USPTO.
