In this article, we introduce Agent Governance as Code, a framework for managing AI agents in software development projects. This approach applies the principles of Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code to agent behavior, ensuring that agents operate within defined boundaries and that their actions are auditable and controllable.
Basic Idea: Similar to Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code, this article introduces Agent Governance as Code, a framework for managing AI agents in software development projects. This approach applies the principles of Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code to agent behavior, ensuring that agents operate within defined boundaries and that their actions are auditable and controllable.
1. Introduction — The Tension Between Agent Freedom and Codebase Safety
ESLint scans a .js file and warns when it sees console.log. Biome stops compilation when it encounters an any type. These tools audit the code humans write and keep it within defined rules.
But when an AI agent writes code — doing so in seconds, at a scale of thousands of lines — who performs that audit?
