AWS Open-Sources Dogwood, Extending Cedar to Govern Sequences of Agent Tool Calls
InfoQ reports: AWS Open-Sources Dogwood, Extending Cedar to Govern Sequences of Agent Tool Calls. AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending…
By Dillip Chowdary • Aug 16, 2026 • Source: InfoQ
What happened
InfoQ reports: AWS Open-Sources Dogwood, Extending Cedar to Govern Sequences of Agent Tool Calls. AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending Cedar with temporal conditions so rules can reason about an agent's prior tool calls rather than one request in isolation. It covers approvals, rate limits and running totals, ships under Apache 2.0, and is supported in AgentCore Policy, though the reference…

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