--- title: How to govern agentic AI, MCPs, and AI code assistants description: Agentic AI breaks the human-in-the-loop model of traditional code completion by enabling agents to write, push, and deploy changes autonomously. This creates... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-govern-agentic-ai-mcps-and-ai-code-assistants-htfalfimb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to govern agentic AI, MCPs, and AI code assistants | daily.dev og:description: Agentic AI breaks the human-in-the-loop model of traditional code completion by enabling agents to write, push, and deploy changes autonomously. This creates... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-govern-agentic-ai-mcps-and-ai-code-assistants-htfalfimb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hTFALFImb.png og:image:alt: How to govern agentic AI, MCPs, and AI code assistants 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. # How to govern agentic AI, MCPs, and AI code assistants **[GitLab](https://daily.dev/sources/gitlab)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Agentic AI breaks the human-in-the-loop model of traditional code completion by enabling agents to write, push, and deploy changes autonomously. This creates new governance challenges around identity, permissions, and auditability. A practical framework is outlined covering: defining what agents are allowed to do via role-based permissions and tool approval guardrails, handling data residency concerns (including self-hosting and bring-your-own-model options), establishing human review checkpoints for code review, testing, and deployment, and tracking five key metrics — adoption, acceptance/quality, risk, remediation, and ROI — together to avoid hidden risk accumulation. A checklist for teams standardizing on GitLab Duo Agent Platform is also provided, emphasizing that governance must be built into the platform rather than added afterward. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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