Notes on governing agents

Access control, guard rules, audit and compliance for teams putting AI agents into production.

Subscribe via RSSTags:access control guard rules mcp security

A handwritten ledger page with dated entries and amounts in columns — A merchant’s ledger, Pittsboro, North Carolina, 1833.

Operators seated along a long manual switchboard in a panelled exchange hall, a supervisor standing behind them

A woman at a pantograph punch transcribes census data onto a punched card

Operators wearing headsets work a row of switchboard positions

Writing guard rules that fail closed

October 6, 2026By Smartplane team

Natural-language guard rules are only useful if they hold when things go wrong. A practical guide to writing rules your security team will trust.

Read article

guard rules
security

Why agents need an access control plane

September 22, 2026By Smartplane team

Every agent ends up with a pile of MCP servers, API keys and database URLs. Here is why that breaks at company scale, and what a control plane changes.

Read article

access control
mcp