# Agent Governance

> Define ownership, operating policy and lifecycle controls across your agents.

Source: https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-governance/

Agent Governance

## Who is accountable for what your agents do?

Define ownership, operating policy and lifecycle controls across your agents.

[Discuss this offering: Agent Governance](https://sidekickmachines.com/contact/?offering=Agent%20Governance)

How it fits together

1. Owners + policy
2. Operating controls
3. Review + oversight

### What changes.

We turn governance requirements into an agent inventory, assigned responsibilities and release, review and retirement workflows.

### Yours to put to work.

- Scope and acceptance criteria agreed together.

#### An agent register

Owners, purpose, systems accessed, authority and dependencies for the agreed fleet.

#### Practical governance workflows

Policy decisions, change reviews, exceptions and periodic reassessment.

#### Lifecycle controls and evidence

Release gates, operating records and retirement procedures connected to delivery.

### See an example engagement

An example scope, adapted to your environment.

1. The starting point: Different teams deploy agents without a shared ownership or change process.
2. The work: Inventory the agents, agree responsibilities and implement review and release workflows.
3. The handoff: An agent register, working governance process and evidence requirements.

#### How we evaluate the result

- In-scope agents have an accountable owner and documented authority.
- Changes and exceptions follow the agreed review process.
- Release, review and retirement decisions have retrievable evidence.

Related capabilities

### When you need more.

[All capabilities](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/)

Flagship offering

#### [Agent Security](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-security/)

Put identity, permissions, human approvals and secure execution into practice.

#### [Agent Identity & Access](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-identity-access/)

Give agents identifiable, scoped access across enterprise systems.

#### [Agent HITL](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-hitl/)

Connect human approval to the action the agent is about to take.

#### [Agent Evals](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-evals/)

Turn “looks good” into repeatable evidence of agent performance.

A useful place to start

### Let’s work through your specific problem.

Start with Agent Governance, scoped to your environment.

[Discuss this offering](https://sidekickmachines.com/contact/?offering=Agent%20Governance)