Open-source governance for AI agents in the enterprise.
AI agents are deploying faster than governance can keep pace. 80% of Fortune 500 companies have active AI agents — only 14.4% with full security approval. Every cloud vendor publishes governance guidance for their own platform. Nobody covers what happens across providers, protocols, and compliance regimes.
AI Trust Commons builds the cross-provider governance layer the industry is missing — standards-mapped, machine-readable, and open source.
🏗️ Human Intelligence Partnership Charter — Four patterns of human-AI partnership. A framework for companies and individuals to map where they are, see what's adjacent, and plan where to go next. [hipcharter.com]
🔗 Governance Framework — Policy enforcement, audit trails, and compliance mapping for AI agents across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments. Maps controls across OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, NIST AI RMF, SOC 2, and EU AI Act.
- NIST — Active participant in the AI Agent Standards Initiative (CAISI RFI, NCCoE Identity & Authorization)
- OWASP — Contributing to MCP Top 10 and the Agentic Security Initiative
- EU AI Act — Article 50 transparency compliance tooling (August 2026 deadline)
Nikhil Singhal (nikhil@aitrustcommons.org) — Builder who governs. Designs, architects, and ships production systems across every pattern of the Human Intelligence Partnership Charter: Foundation, Tooling, Pipeline, Integration. 25 years at Microsoft, T-Mobile, AT&T, Expedia Group, and Hitachi Consulting watching the distance grow between what leaders intended and what systems actually delivered. The same pattern is playing out in AI.
📘 Human Intelligence Partnership Charter — Four partnership patterns. Fifteen positions on the map. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19078843
📝 From Instinct to Intent™ — Article series on the structural gap between human intent and machine execution. Four articles published. DOIs on Zenodo.
📋 NIST Public Comment — ~5,000 words on AI agent governance. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18903117