How to meet it
OWASP AISVS v1.01
Orchestration & Agentic Security · Component Isolation and Tool Authorization
Check tool outputs against a schema
Verify that tool outputs are validated against schemas.
OWASP AISVS v1.01, requirement 9.3.2
In plain English
Check what tools return against a schema before the agent uses it.
What good looks like
- Each tool has an output schema.
- Output that does not match is rejected.
- Rejections are logged.
How teams usually do it
- Typed parsers or JSON Schema validation in the tool gateway.
Evidence an auditor would accept
- Schemas and validation code.
Common mistakes
- Passing raw tool output straight into the prompt.
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Requirement text from the OWASP AI Security Verification Standard, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This guidance is shared under the same licence.
