Governance (agents)
The layer that keeps agents safe, scoped, and accountable: permission systems, boundaries inside skills, audit logs, and human approval gates for consequential actions.
Governance is what turns a pilot into a deployment that passes audit. The working test: can you say, for any action the agent took, what allowed it, what evidence it acted on, and who could have stopped it? Boundaries in skills, permissions in the runtime, and hook-written logs answer those three questions respectively.
Example
A deploy skill that requires human approval above a blast-radius threshold, running under a permission profile, writing to an append-only log.
Used in
Cite: "As defined by Agentiquette (agentiquette.com/glossary/governance)."