// GLOSSARY -- POLICY ENFORCEMENT
What is Agent Governance Framework?
A structured set of controls — identity verification, permission scoping, spending limits, audit logging, and kill switches — that ensures AI agents operate within defined boundaries across financial and operational domains.
WHY IT MATTERS
As organisations deploy more agents with more autonomy, ad-hoc controls don't scale. A governance framework provides the structure: who can deploy agents, what agents can access, how much they can spend, and how everything is audited.
Enterprises, regulators, and standards bodies (NIST, OWASP, CSA) are converging on the need for formal agent governance. The question is what it looks like in practice.
HOW POLICYLAYER USES THIS
PolicyLayer provides the enforcement layer within an agent governance framework — turning policies into runtime controls.