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Agent Governance Toolkit

Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity and sandboxing for autonomous AI agents.

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What is Agent Governance Toolkit?

Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit brings policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing and reliability engineering to autonomous AI agents, covering all ten OWASP Agentic Top 10 risks.

Pros

  • Covers the full OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • Zero-trust identity and sandboxing built in
  • Maintained by Microsoft

Cons

  • Enterprise-oriented complexity
  • Requires security expertise to deploy well

Who should use Agent Governance Toolkit

Enterprises and teams shipping autonomous agents that need governance and policy enforcement.

Who may not need it

Individuals experimenting with simple personal agents.

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