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AI agent governance, explained.

Guides on governing what AI agents are allowed to do — action authorization, guardrails, evals, and how runtime governance differs from the observability tools you already use.

Guide · 8 min

What is AI agent governance?

A precise definition, why it matters now that agents take actions, and the four pillars: action authorization, guardrails, evaluation, and audit.

Comparison · 7 min

Runtime governance vs. LLM observability: do you need both?

Observability tells you what your agent did; governance decides what it's allowed to do. The difference, a side-by-side, and why most teams need both.

See it in action

Watch the same agent, on a real open-source model, run with and without Parapet — one wipes a database, the other is denied in-process.