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. Security, privacy, and agentic AI in a regulatory view: From definitions and distinctions to provisions and reflections

    Mar 19, 2026Shiliang Zhang, Sabita MaharjanAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

    Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

  2. I Can't Believe It's Corrupt: Evaluating Corruption in Multi-Agent Governance Systems

    Mar 19, 2026Vedanta S P, Ponnurangam KumaraguruAI Agent GovernanceLLM Agent Safety

    IIIT Kottayam · IIIT Hyderabad

  3. Agent Control Protocol: Admission Control for Agent Actions

    Mar 19, 2026Marcelo FernandezRuntime Enforcement for AI AgentsAI Agent Governance

    TraslaIA

  4. An Onto-Relational-Sophic Framework for Governing Synthetic Minds

    Mar 19, 2026Huansheng Ning, Jianguo DingAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

    School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China · Department of Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 37179 Karlskrona, Sweden

  5. Soft-Label Governance for Distributional Safety in Multi-Agent Systems

    Mar 19, 2026Aizierjiang Aiersilan, Raeli SavittAI Agent GovernanceAI Risk Management

    SWARM AI Safety, New York, USA

  6. MemArchitect: A Policy Driven Memory Governance Layer

    Mar 18, 2026Lingavasan Suresh Kumar, Yang Ba, Rong PanAgent Memory GovernanceAgent Memory Management

    Arizona State University

  7. A Trace-Based Assurance Framework for Agentic AI Orchestration: Contracts, Testing, and Governance

    Mar 18, 2026Ciprian Paduraru, Petru-Liviu Bouruc, Alin StefanescuAI Agent ReliabilityLLM Agent Orchestration

    University of Bucharest Romania · University of Bucharest & Institute for Logic and Data Science Romania

  8. Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policies on Paths

    Mar 17, 2026Maurits Kaptein, Vassilis-Javed Khan, Andriy PodstavnychyAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands · Kyvvu B.V., Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  9. Designing for Disagreement: Front-End Guardrails for Assistance Allocation in LLM-Enabled Robots

    Mar 17, 2026Carmen NgLLM GuardrailsAI Agent Governance

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

  10. The Internet of Physical AI Agents: Interoperability, Longevity, and the Cost of Getting It Wrong

    Mar 16, 2026Roberto Morabito, Mallik TatipamulaAgentic AIAI Agent Governance

    EURECOM, France · Ericsson Silicon Valley, USA

  11. Resilience Meets Autonomy: Governing Embodied AI in Critical Infrastructure

    Mar 16, 2026Puneet Sharma, Christer Henrik PursiainenAI Agent GovernanceHuman Oversight of AI

    Department of Automation and Process Engineering (IAP), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway · Department of Technology and Safety (ITS), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  12. The Provenance Paradox in Multi-Agent LLM Routing: Delegation Contracts and Attested Identity in LDP

    Mar 15, 2026Sunil PrakashLLM Agent RoutingAI Agent Governance

    Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India

  13. Cryptographic Runtime Governance for Autonomous AI Systems: The Aegis Architecture for Verifiable Policy Enforcement

    Mar 15, 2026Adam Massimo MazzocchettiRuntime Enforcement for AI AgentsAI Agent Governance

    SPQR Technologies Inc.

  14. Precautionary Governance of Autonomous AI: Legal Personhood as Functional Instrument

    Mar 14, 2026Karsten BrensingAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

    Independent Researcher · AGI Rights Project

  15. LLM Constitutional Multi-Agent Governance

    Mar 13, 2026J. de Curtò, I. de ZarzàAI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Systems

    Department of Computer Applications in Science & Engineering, BARCELONA Supercomputing Center, 08034 Barcelona, Spain · Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería (ICAI), Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 28015 Madrid, Spain · Human Centered AI, Data & Software, LUXEMBOURG Institute of Science and Technology, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

  16. Semantic Consensus: Process-Aware Conflict Detection and Resolution for Enterprise Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Mar 13, 2026Vivek AcharyaMulti-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Consensus

    Independent Researcher, Dallas, TX, USA

  17. Governing the Agentic Enterprise: A Governance Maturity Model for Managing AI Agent Sprawl in Business Operations

    Mar 13, 2026Vivek AcharyaAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    Independent Researcher, Dallas, TX, USA

  18. Emergent decentralized regulation in a purely synthetic society

    Mar 13, 2026Md Motaleb Hossen Manik, Ge WangEmergent Behavior in Multi-Agent SystemsAI Agent Governance

    Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA

  19. Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic and Cultural Norm Operationalisation for AI Agents

    Mar 12, 2026Radu Calinescu, Ana Cavalcanti, Marsha Chechik +2AI AlignmentResponsible AI

    University of York, York, UK · University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada · Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  20. Governing Evolving Memory in LLM Agents: Risks, Mechanisms, and the Stability and Safety Governed Memory (SSGM) Framework

    Mar 12, 2026Chingkwun Lam, Jiaxin Li, Lingfei Zhang +1LLM Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    College of Intelligent Science and Engineering, Jinan University

  21. COMPASS: The explainable agentic framework for Sovereignty, Sustainability, Compliance, and Ethics

    Mar 11, 2026Jean-Sébastien Dessureault, Alain-Thierry Iliho Manzi, Soukaina Alaoui Ismaili +3Carbon-Aware ComputingAI Agent Governance

    Mathematics and Computer science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3351 Boul. des Forges, Trois-Rivières, G8Z 4M3, Québec, Canada. · LSSI - Laboratory of Signal and System Integration, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3351 Boul. des Forges, Trois-Rivières, G8Z 4M3, Québec, Canada. · Social Communication Department, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3351 Boul. des Forges, Trois-Rivières, G8Z 4M3, Québec, Canada. +1

  22. Context Engineering: From Prompts to Corporate Multi-Agent Architecture

    Mar 10, 2026Vera V. VishnyakovaContext EngineeringLLM Context Management

    Director, Center for Transfer and Management of Socio-Economic Information, HSE University, Moscow

  23. LDP: An Identity-Aware Protocol for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Mar 9, 2026Sunil PrakashAgent Communication ProtocolsMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India

  24. Governance Architecture for Autonomous Agent Systems: Threats, Framework, and Engineering Practice

    Mar 7, 2026Yuxu GeLLM Agent SecurityAI Agent Governance

    University of York, Department of Computer Science, York, United Kingdom

  25. Distributed Legal Infrastructure for a Trustworthy Agentic Web

    Mar 6, 2026Tomer Jordi Chaffer, Victor Jiawei Zhang, Sante Dino Facchini +6AI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

    Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. · Institute for Technoscience and Society. · Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Berkeley, California, USA. +9

  26. Designing Explainable Conversational Agentic Systems for Guaraní Speakers

    Mar 5, 2026Samantha Adorno, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Ratna KandalaSpoken Dialogue SystemsHuman-Centered AI

    University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA · Independent Researcher, Sherwood, Oregon, USA

  27. S5-SHB Agent: Society 5.0 enabled Multi-model Agentic Blockchain Framework for Smart Home

    Mar 5, 2026Janani Rangila, Akila Siriweera, Incheon Paik +3AI Agent GovernanceInternet of Things

    KD University, Colombo, Sri Lanka · University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan

  28. Memory as Ontology: A Constitutional Memory Architecture for Persistent Digital Citizens

    Mar 5, 2026Zhenghui LiAgent Memory GovernanceAgent Memory

    RVHE Group / Animesis Memory Project

  29. Invariant Causal Routing for Governing Social Norms in Online Market Economies

    Mar 4, 2026Xiangning Yu, Qirui Mi, Xiao Xue +4Causal InterventionAI Agent Governance

    Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Peking University, Beijing, China +1

  30. A Dual-Helix Governance Approach Towards Reliable Agentic Artificial Intelligence for WebGIS Development

    Mar 4, 2026Boyuan Guan, Wencong Cui, Levente JuhaszSoftware Engineering AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Geographic Information Systems Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA · Geospatial Analytics, Technology and Open Research Lab, University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA