AI Agents
Agent fleets, orchestration, and control planes for software operations.
8 articles
Who's Accountable When the Agent Ships the Bug? Building an Audit Trail That Holds Up
When an AI agent ships the bug, accountability comes down to your audit trail. How to build immutable, explainable records of autonomous action that hold up to a regulator.
A Glossary of Enterprise AI Agent Governance: Control Plane, Policy-as-Code, Authority Scoping, and More
Plain-English definitions of the enterprise AI agent governance vocabulary: control plane, policy-as-code, authority scoping, blast radius, and more.
The Governed-Autonomy Maturity Model: Where Is Your Org on the Curve?
A five-stage maturity model for governed autonomy in software delivery, from manual gates to policy-driven control, plus a self-assessment for engineering leaders.
The Real Cost of an Ungoverned Agent: An ROI Model for AI Control Planes
A CFO-ready ROI model for AI control planes: weigh the recurring cost of governance against the expected cost of one ungoverned-agent incident.
Governing Remediation Fleets: How to Let AI Fix Code Without Losing Control
An SRE's guide to governing autonomous remediation: scope fixes by blast radius, gate approvals with policy, and keep every change reversible.
Agents Propose, Humans Authorize: The Operating Model for AI in Production
A concrete operating model for AI in production: policy, approval, and audit. The governed middle between 'no humans' hype and ungoverned autonomy.
A Control Plane Is Not an Agent Framework: The Distinction Enterprises Keep Missing
An agent framework makes agents run. A control plane governs what they're allowed to do. Here's the architectural line platform teams keep missing, and why you need both.
When 80% of Devs Bypass Policy, Your Governance Isn't Real
If ~80% of developers route around your guardrails, your policy is advisory. For a fintech CISO, only an enforcing control plane that beats the workaround governs.
