Governance
Policies, controls, and processes that ensure responsible agent behavior in production.
Why it matters
Autonomous AI needs rules. Governance defines what agents can and cannot do.
In practice
Paperclip defines 3 governance levels: autonomous, supervised, and approval_required. Our Website Agent is autonomous; our Chat Agent is supervised.
See this in practice
How Leap Laboratory uses this concept in real work.
In our service
AI Agent Systems→Example use cases
Related terms
Paperclip
An open-source orchestration platform that models company structures for AI agents: org charts, budgets, governance.
Guardrails
Rules and constraints that prevent an agent from taking harmful or unauthorized actions.
Audit Trail
An immutable record of all agent actions and decisions, essential for compliance and accountability.
Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
A human reviews and approves specific agent actions before they execute.