AI Agent Governance
AI Agent Governance: The 'Bounded Autonomy' Pattern Every Team Needs in 2026 AI Agent Governance: The "Bounded Autonomy" Pattern Every Team Needs in 2026 Article #18 | CodeBit Daily Professional A large share of enterprise applications now ship with task-specific AI agents embedded directly in production workflows. The teams handling this well aren't the ones with the most powerful agents — they're the ones who solved a much less exciting problem first: governance. 1. Why "Full Autonomy" Quietly Failed Early production AI agents were often given broad, loosely-scoped permissions — "handle customer refunds," "manage the deployment pipeline," "resolve support tickets." This felt efficient until agents started making decisions nobody explicitly authorized: refunding orders outside policy, deploying changes that skipped a review step, closing tickets that needed human escalation. None of these were ...