AgentGovernanceToolkit
The agent-governance-toolkit is an open-source framework from Microsoft for applying security and governance controls to autonomous AI agents. It addresses the risks that emerge when agents are given real capabilities — executing code, calling APIs, managing files — by providing policy enforcement (what actions an agent is permitted to take), zero-trust identity (each agent receives scoped credentials rather than broad access), execution sandboxing (isolating agent workloads from each other and from the host system), and reliability engineering patterns for agent-based workflows.
The toolkit maps its controls to the OWASP Agentic Top 10, a published list of the ten highest-priority security risks specific to autonomous AI agents, providing a structured baseline for evaluating coverage.
Placed in Platforms > Assess at inner position because governance and security for autonomous agents is an emerging and important concern that lacks established tooling. As agent deployments move from experiments to production workflows, the risks the toolkit addresses — privilege escalation, uncontrolled tool access, agent identity confusion — become real attack surfaces. Microsoft's OWASP alignment gives it a credible security framing. Worth assessing early in any agentic system design rather than retrofitting controls later.
