What is agent governance?
Rules, controls, and records that keep agents answerable in real work.
06 · Safety & governance · 8 terms
What belongs in safety & governance?
Safety & governance covers the controls that keep action bounded, visible, and accountable. This section has 8 definitions. Open any term for a plain answer, the source behind it, and the day we checked it. Related links take you to the ideas that explain it or show where it sits in the wider field.
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What is agent identity?
The names, traits, and proof that let a system tell one agent from another.
What is agent safety?
The work of keeping an agent’s goals, choices, and effects within set limits.
What is agent security?
Protection for agents, tools, data, keys, and users against attack or misuse.
What is capability security?
A security model where holding a hard-to-forge token grants the rights it names.
What is delegated authorization?
Permission granted to an agent to act for someone else within a stated scope and time.
What is guardrail?
A rule or check that blocks, changes, or escalates an input, output, or action when a condition is met.
What is non-human identity?
A digital ID for software, an agent, a workload, or a device rather than a person.