Guides to governing AI agents.
Evergreen how-tos and explainers — from the scope-guard-log fundamentals to spend caps, SIEM streaming, and SOC 2 readiness. Read in order, or jump to what you need.
Start here — the model behind agent governance.
Agent governance 101
A from-scratch introduction to governing AI agents: what governance means, why it differs from human IAM, and the scope-guard-log model you'll use for everything that follows.
8 min read
Least privilege for AI agents
How to scope an agent down to exactly the capabilities its job requires — and why, for agents, 'denied' isn't enough and capabilities should be invisible.
7 min read
Hands-on guides to configure the controls.
Setting spend caps & approval thresholds
A step-by-step guide to your two highest-value guards: capping what an agent can spend, and routing anything above a threshold to a human — without grinding work to a halt.
7 min read
Streaming agent audit logs to your SIEM
How to get your agents' action log out of the product and into the SIEM your security team already lives in — what to stream, how to map it, and which detections to build first.
7 min read
Turn governance into evidence auditors accept.
Put every agent your company runs under one policy.
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