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. Self-Sovereign Agent

    Mar 4, 2026Wenjie Qu, Xuandong Zhao, Jiaheng Zhang +1AI Agent GovernanceAI Agent Security

    National University of Singapore · UC Berkeley

  2. Mozi: Governed Autonomy for Drug Discovery LLM Agents

    Mar 4, 2026He Cao, Siyu Liu, Fan Zhang +7AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryLLM Agent Orchestration

  3. The Controllability Trap: A Governance Framework for Military AI Agents

    Mar 3, 2026Subramanyam SahooAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    MARS (Mentorship for Alignment Researchers) 4.0 Fellow Cambridge AI Safety Hub (CAISH) University of Cambridge

  4. AI Space Physics: Constitutive boundary semantics for open AI institutions

    Mar 3, 2026Oleg Romanchuk, Roman BondarAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

  5. REGAL: A Registry-Driven Architecture for Deterministic Grounding of Agentic AI in Enterprise Telemetry

    Mar 3, 2026Yuvraj AgrawalLLM GroundingLLM Agents

    Adobe Inc.

  6. Architecting Trust in Artificial Epistemic Agents

    Mar 3, 2026Nahema Marchal, Stephanie Chan, Matija Franklin +5Trust in AIAI Agent Governance

    Google DeepMind · Google Research

  7. Selection as Power: Constrained Reinforcement for Bounded Decision Authority

    Mar 2, 2026Jose Manuel de la Chica Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Vera DíazAI Agent GovernanceConstrained RL

    AI Lab, Grupo Santander Madrid, Spain

  8. The Alignment Flywheel: A Governance-Centric Hybrid MAS for Architecture-Agnostic Safety

    Feb 28, 2026Elias Malomgré, Pieter SimoensAI Agent SafetyAI Agent Monitoring

    IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Belgium

  9. The Comprehension-Gated Agent Economy: A Robustness-First Architecture for AI Economic Agency

    Feb 27, 2026Rahul BaxiAI Agent GovernanceAgentic AI

    Independent Researcher

  10. AESP: A Human-Sovereign Economic Protocol for AI Agents with Privacy-Preserving Settlement

    Feb 27, 2026Jian Sheng WangAI Agent GovernanceHuman Oversight of AI

    Yeah LLC

  11. LiaisonAgent: An Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Risk Investigation and Governance

    Feb 27, 2026Chuanming Tang, Ling Qing, Shifeng ChenAutonomous Cyber DefenseMulti-Agent Systems

    Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS · Sangfor Technologies Inc. · College of Management Science +2

  12. The Auton Agentic AI Framework

    Feb 27, 2026Sheng Cao, Zhao Chang, Chang Li +3Agentic AILLM Agent Orchestration

  13. Agent Behavioral Contracts: Formal Specification and Runtime Enforcement for Reliable Autonomous AI Agents

    Feb 25, 2026Varun Pratap BhardwajAI Agent ReliabilityRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Senior Manager & Solution Architect, Accenture

  14. How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents

    Feb 24, 2026Yonathan Arbel, Peter Salib, Simon GoldsteinAI Agent GovernanceAI Accountability

    the Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama · the Center for Law & AI Risk · an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong +3

  15. Agents of Chaos

    Feb 23, 2026Natalie Shapira, Chris Wendler, Avery Yen +35AI Agent SecurityLLM Agent Security

    Northeastern University · Independent Researcher · Stanford University +10

  16. Agentic Hives: Equilibrium, Indeterminacy, and Endogenous Cycles in Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems

    Feb 23, 2026Jean-Philippe GarnierMulti-Agent SystemsAI Agent Governance

    Br.AI.K · BrainiaK, Lille, France

  17. From Agent-Only Social Networks to Autonomous Scientific Research: Lessons from OpenClaw and Moltbook, and the Architecture of ClawdLab and Beach.Science

    Feb 23, 2026Lukas Weidener, Marko Brkić, Phillip Lee +3Autonomous Research AgentsAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

  18. OpenPort Protocol: A Security Governance Specification for AI Agent Tool Access

    Feb 22, 2026Genliang Zhu, Chu Wang, Ziyuan Wang +2Tool Access Control for LLM AgentsAI Agent Governance

    Accentrust · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +2

  19. The Convergence of Schema-Guided Dialogue Systems and the Model Context Protocol

    Feb 21, 2026Andreas SchlapbachLLM Tool UseModel Context Protocol

    SBB (Swiss Federal Railways), SBB IT, Bern, Switzerland

  20. Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and the Institutional Turn: Legal Architectures and Financial Governance in the Age of Distributional AGI

    Feb 20, 2026Marcel OsmondAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    QMUL CCLS, London, UK.

  21. NeuDiff Agent: A Governed AI Workflow for Single-Crystal Neutron Crystallography

    Feb 18, 2026Zhongcan Xiao, Leyi Zhang, Guannan Zhang +1Scientific Workflow AutomationAI Agent Governance

    Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennesse USA · Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA · Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA +3

  22. Formal Policy Enforcement for Agentic Systems

    Feb 18, 2026Nils Palumbo, Sarthak Choudhary, Jihye Choi +4Runtime Enforcement for AI AgentsAI Agent Governance

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · Cornell University · Langroid

  23. Towards Selection as Power: Bounding Decision Authority in Autonomous Agents

    Feb 16, 2026Jose Manuel de la Chica Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Vera DíazAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    AI Lab, Grupo Santander, Madrid, Spain

  24. Bridging Symbolic Control and Neural Reasoning in LLM Agents -- The Structured Cognitive Loop

    Nov 21, 2025Myung Ho KimNeuro-Symbolic ReasoningAI Agent Governance

    JEI University

  25. Enabling Regulatory Multi-Agent Collaboration: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions

    Sep 11, 2025Qinnan Hu, Yuntao Wang, Yuan Gao +3Agent ReliabilityAI Agent Security

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China · School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, China

  26. Web3 x AI Agents: Landscape, Integrations, and Foundational Challenges

    Aug 4, 2025Yiming Shen, Jiashuo Zhang, Zhenzhe Shao +5AI Agent ReliabilityAI Agent Governance

    School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering (School of Cyber Security), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China +1