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  • The Agent Governance Stack: A 7-Pillar Framework for Governing Agentic AI
    Research6 min read

    The Agent Governance Stack: A 7-Pillar Framework for Governing Agentic AI

    Agentic AI plans, delegates, and executes across tool chains before a human ever sees the output. Today's frameworks — NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO 42001 — provide the right foundations but don't yet offer an operational playbook for teams shipping agents. The Agent Governance Stack addresses that gap with 7 pillars — Identity & Authorization, Observability, Human-in-the-Loop Design, Scope Containment, Failure Protocols, Release Readiness Gates, and Ongoing Monitoring — designed to sit between your governance policy and your production agent.

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  • What Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit Tells Us About Release Readiness
    Industry6 min read

    What Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit Tells Us About Release Readiness

    In April 2026, Microsoft open-sourced the Agent Governance Toolkit — a runtime security framework for autonomous AI agents. This post examines what the AGT actually provides and how its nine-package architecture maps to the six key questions a release readiness gate for agentic AI must answer.

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