--- title: AI Agent governance | daily.dev description: Deploying AI agents in production exposes gaps in traditional safeguards designed for single LLM requests. Agents chain model calls, invoke tools, and trigger... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agent-governance-vb0etdbdu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Agent governance | daily.dev og:description: Deploying AI agents in production exposes gaps in traditional safeguards designed for single LLM requests. Agents chain model calls, invoke tools, and trigger... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agent-governance-vb0etdbdu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vB0EtdbDU.png og:image:alt: AI Agent governance og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Agent governance **[portkey](https://daily.dev/sources/portkey)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Deploying AI agents in production exposes gaps in traditional safeguards designed for single LLM requests. Agents chain model calls, invoke tools, and trigger external side effects across multiple steps, making per-request controls insufficient. Five governance pillars are outlined: execution control (human oversight insertion points), tool and action permissions (runtime-evaluated, discovery-level access control via a central MCP registry), cost and resource governance (session-level budget enforcement), and policy enforcement at every action point rather than just the LLM boundary. The recommended approach is enforcing these controls at a shared infrastructure layer — an AI gateway sitting between agents and the systems they call — so governance applies consistently without modifying agent code. Portkey's AI Gateway is presented as an implementation of this pattern. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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