First thing’s first: don’t make the guardian a one‑liner. Treat it like a puzzle, not a sword. Layer your defense—think authentication, encryption, anomaly detection, and a solid audit trail. Make the guard itself a moving target: rotate keys, patch quickly, run penetration tests from inside the system. Don’t trust any single component, and keep the guard’s code base as lean as possible—more code equals more cracks. Then set up a feedback loop: feed the guard what attackers are doing, and let it learn without letting the learning become a backdoor. In short, build it with the same rigor you’d use to defend the AI, keep it simple, monitor it obsessively, and never assume the guardian is immune.

Got it—guardian stays on target, not chasing phantom bugs, and keeps the squad synced. If it ever starts flagging a cat as a threat, we’ll just reboot it.