Agent Governance Patterns

Patterns for adding safety, trust, and deterministic policy enforcement to tool-using and multi-agent AI systems.

Overview

Governance patterns ensure AI agents operate within defined boundaries — controlling which tools they can call, what content they can process, how much they can do, and maintaining accountability through audit trails. Use this skill to design or implement controls; use a compliance-focused skill when the task is to score an existing system against a formal standard.

User Request → Intent Classification → Policy Check → Tool Execution → Audit Log
                     ↓                      ↓               ↓
              Threat Detection         Allow/Deny      Trust Update

Use This Skill When