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AI agent governance checklist for production teams.

Governance is not one policy document. It is a repeatable operating system that covers approvals, incident handling, and measurable reliability.

Checklist

  • - Define workflow owners and required approval gates for production-impacting actions.
  • - Require audit logs for prompts, tool calls, outputs, and human override decisions.
  • - Set response policies for failed deliveries, retries, and escalations to on-call teams.
  • - Review data retention, privacy obligations, and processor/subprocessor disclosures.
  • - Measure reliability with success rate, latency, and rollback frequency by workflow.

Rollout sequence

Start with one high-value workflow and enforce baseline controls first. Expand to additional teams after alerting, escalation, and approval patterns are stable.