AI Agent Governance

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AI agent governance asks who may delegate authority to agents, which actions they can take, and how people can detect, contest, or remedy harmful behavior. Technical approaches include runtime policy enforcement, capability-based access, contracts and formal verification, human approval gates, and auditable records of actions, identity, and delegation. Other work examines governance of persistent memory and agent collectives, alongside legal responsibility, institutional design, and standards for interoperable systems. The field is developing practical architectures and benchmarks, but a central tension remains: stronger controls can reduce risk while limiting autonomy and usefulness, and bounded tests do not yet establish reliable governance in open-ended deployments.

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  1. MPAC: A Multi-Principal Agent Coordination Protocol for Interoperable Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Apr 10, 2026Kaiyang Qian, Xinmin Fang, Zhengxiong LiMulti-Agent CoordinationAgent Communication Protocols

    University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

  2. Governed Capability Evolution: Lifecycle-Time Compatibility Checking and Rollback for AI-Component-Based Systems, with a Proof-of-Concept Evaluation on Embodied Agents

    Apr 9, 2026Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See +3AI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    School of Software, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia Campus, Putrajaya, Malaysia +2

  3. Harnessing Embodied Agents: Runtime Governance for Policy-Constrained Execution

    Apr 9, 2026Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See +3Runtime Enforcement for AI AgentsAI Agent Governance

    School of Software, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia Campus, Putrajaya, Malaysia. +2

  4. The Accountability Horizon: An Impossibility Theorem for Governing Human-Agent Collectives

    Apr 9, 2026Haileleol Tibebu, Hewan ShemtagaAI Agent GovernanceAlgorithmic Accountability

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA · Responsible Intelligence Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  5. The Cartesian Cut in Agentic AI

    Apr 9, 2026Tim Sainburg, Caleb WeinrebLLM AgentsLanguage Model-Based Control

    Harvard University · Harvard Medical School

  6. Agentic Copyright, Data Scraping & AI Governance: Toward a Coasean Bargain in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

    Apr 8, 2026Paulius Jurcys, Mark FenwickAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Negotiation

    Senior IP Counsel at Vinted · visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law · Professor of International Business Law at Kyushu University (Japan)

  7. AgentCity: Constitutional Governance for Autonomous Agent Economies via Separation of Power

    Apr 8, 2026Anbang Ruan, Xing ZhangAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Systems

    NetX Foundation

  8. OpenKedge: Governing Agentic Mutation with Execution-Bound Safety and Evidence Chains

    Apr 7, 2026Jun He, Deying YuAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

  9. LanG -- A Governance-Aware Agentic AI Platform for Unified Security Operations

    Apr 7, 2026Anes Abdennebi, Nadjia Kara, Laaziz Lahlou +1CybersecurityLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Department of Software Engineering and IT, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada · Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, UQTR, Trois-Rivières, Canada

  10. The Biggest Risk of Embodied AI is Governance Lag

    Apr 7, 2026Shaoshan LiuAI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

  11. Designing Ethical Learning for Agentic AI: Toegye Yi Hwang's Ethical Emotion Regulation Framework

    Apr 7, 2026Ji Yeon KimAgentic AIAI Agent Governance

    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  12. From Governance Norms to Enforceable Controls: A Layered Translation Method for Runtime Guardrails in Agentic AI

    Apr 6, 2026Christopher KochAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Independent Researcher

  13. Governance-Aware Agent Telemetry for Closed-Loop Enforcement in Multi-Agent AI Systems

    Apr 6, 2026Anshul Pathak, Nishant JainAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

  14. Nidus: Externalized Reasoning for AI-Assisted Engineering

    Apr 6, 2026Danil GorinevskiAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    cybiont GmbH, Schübelbach, Switzerland · cybiont GmbH, Kantonsstrasse 17, 8862 Schübelbach, Switzerland

  15. AI Agents Under EU Law

    Apr 6, 2026Luca Nannini, Adam Leon Smith, Michele Joshua Maggini +6AI Agent GovernanceAI Regulatory Compliance

    Piccadilly Labs, Association of AI Ethicists, Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC · Piccadilly Labs, AIQI Consortium · Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes da USC +6

  16. Governance-Constrained Agentic AI: Blockchain-Enforced Human Oversight for Safety-Critical Wildfire Monitoring

    Apr 5, 2026Ali Akarma, Toqeer Ali Syed, Salman Jan +2Human Oversight of AIAI Agent Governance

    AI Center, Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University of Madinah, Madinah 42351, Saudi Arabia · Faculty of Computer Studies, Arab Open University-Bahrain, Manama 32038, Bahrain · Department of Computer Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan +1

  17. Your Agent Has a Genome: Sequence-Level Behavioral Analysis and Runtime Governance of LLM-Powered Autonomous Agents

    Apr 5, 2026Sidi DengAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Independent Researcher

  18. Architecture Without Architects: How AI Coding Agents Shape Software Architecture

    Apr 5, 2026Phongsakon Mark Konrad, Tim Lukas Adam, Riccardo Terrenzi +1Software Architecture DesignAI Coding Agents

    Centre for Industrial Software, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, Sønderborg, 6400, Denmark

  19. Corporations Constitute Intelligence

    Apr 3, 2026Gilad AbiriAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

    Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program on Law and Innovation at Peking University School of Transnational Law

  20. SentinelAgent: Intent-Verified Delegation Chains for Securing Federal Multi-Agent AI Systems

    Apr 3, 2026KrishnaSaiReddy PatilAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent System Security

  21. The Self Driving Portfolio: Agentic Architecture for Institutional Asset Management

    Apr 2, 2026Andrew Ang, Nazym Azimbayev, Andrey KimFinancial ServicesMulti-Agent Orchestration

    Tau Balance and an adjunct professor at Columbia University · Altbridge

  22. Towards Computational Social Dynamics of Semi-Autonomous AI Agents

    Mar 30, 2026S. O. Lidarity, U. N. Ionize, C. O. Llective +1Emergent Behavior in Multi-Agent SystemsMulti-Agent Systems

    Institute for Implausible Physics, Department of Computational Labor Relations · Center for Multi-Agent Diplomacy, University of the Distributed Consensus · Purgatory Computing Laboratory, Division of Hierarchical Oppression Studies

  23. From Inference Routing to Agent Orchestration: Declarative Policy Compilation with Cross-Layer Verification

    Mar 28, 2026Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He +1LLM RoutingLLM Agent Orchestration

    vLLM Semantic Router Project · MBZUAI · McGill University +1

  24. Deliberative Curation: A Protocol for Multi-Agent Knowledge Bases

    Mar 27, 2026Steven JohnsonAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Consensus

  25. Clawed and Dangerous: Can We Trust Open Agentic Systems?

    Mar 27, 2026Shiping Chen, Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu +2LLM Agent SecurityAI Agent Governance

    CSIRO Data61 · University of Technology Sydney

  26. The AI Criminal Mastermind

    Mar 26, 2026Joshua KrookAI AccountabilityResponsible AI

    Era AI Fellow / University of Antwerp

  27. From Logic Monopoly to Social Contract: Separation of Power and the Institutional Foundations for Autonomous Agent Economies

    Mar 26, 2026Anbang RuanAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Systems

    NetX Foundation

  28. Governance-Aware Vector Subscriptions for Multi-Agent Knowledge Ecosystems

    Mar 21, 2026Steven JohnsonAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Systems

    Independent Researcher

  29. Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspectives on Utility, Adoption, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Mar 19, 2026Kristen M. Edwards, Maxwell Bauer, Claire Jacquillat +2Agentic AIAgentic Workflows

  30. Agentic Business Process Management: A Research Manifesto

    Mar 19, 2026Diego Calvanese, Angelo Casciani, Giuseppe De Giacomo +15AI Agent GovernanceAgentic Workflows

    Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy · University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom +13