Summary

Remove Protect from the splunk-ao SDK. Protect is being superseded by Agent Control and will be maintained only in the
galileo SDK for backward compatibility.

Changes

Files deleted:

• src/splunk_ao/protect.py — Protect class, invoke_protect, ainvoke_protect
• src/splunk_ao/stages.py — Stages class and create/get/update/pause/resume_protect_stage helper functions
• src/splunk_ao/constants/protect.py — TIMEOUT_SECS constant
• src/splunk_ao/handlers/langchain/tool.py — ProtectTool, ProtectParser, ProtectToolInputSchema
• tests/test_protect.py, tests/test_protect_parser.py, tests/test_stages.py — all Protect-related tests

Files modified:

• src/splunk_ao/init.py — removed all Protect imports and public exports (invoke_protect, ainvoke_protect,
  create/get/update/pause/resume_protect_stage, Payload, Ruleset, Request, Response, ExecutionStatus, StageType)
• src/splunk_ao/logger/logger.py — removed add_protect_span method and its Payload/Response imports
• tests/test_logger_batch.py, tests/test_logger_distributed.py — removed add_protect_span usage and protect span assertions
• tests/conftest.py — removed rulesets fixture and Rule/Ruleset/RuleOperator imports

Impact

• No impact on existing SDK functionality (logging, tracing, agent control, experiments, datasets) — 1660 tests pass
• Breaking change for any callers using Protect APIs directly via splunk-ao; they should migrate to Agent Control or import
  Protect from the galileo package directly