Open Source Friday: Governance for AI agents with Imran Siddique

Imran Siddique joins GitHub’s Open Source Friday to discuss governance for AI agents in production, using the microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit as a reference point for policy, identity, sandboxing, and tamper-evident auditing.

Overview

The video focuses on operational governance concerns for AI agents that can call tools, query databases, and make autonomous decisions. It highlights why prompts alone are not a sufficient control surface for production systems, and it points to the open-source microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit as an approach for implementing:

• Policy controls for agent behavior
• Identity considerations for agents and tool access
• Sandboxing/isolation strategies
• Tamper-evident audit trails for agent actions

Link referenced: https://gh.io/agt