Agent engineering guide

Govern the action, not just the answer.

An agent becomes an operational actor when it can call tools, change state or communicate. Governance must follow that action boundary.

What this means

Every tool call changes the risk model.

Agent governance should define what the system may observe, propose, change or send—and how a human can intervene when context or confidence is insufficient.

01

Action inventory

List every external effect an agent can produce.

02

Permission scopes

Limit tools and data to the task boundary.

03

Approval policy

Require authorised review for consequential actions.

04

Execution records

Trace inputs, tool calls, state and outcomes.

05

Evaluation

Measure task success, intervention and failure patterns.

06

Incident response

Define pause, rollback, correction and ownership.

Create an action taxonomy

Reading information, drafting content, sending a message and changing a financial record are not equivalent. Classify actions by impact and reversibility.

Design approvals around consequence

Human review should be applied where impact, uncertainty or irreversibility demands it—not uniformly added to every step.

Make execution durable and inspectable

Long-running tasks need state, retries and recovery. Operators need to understand what completed, what failed and what the system planned next.

Earn autonomy gradually

Start with recommendation or draft modes, measure performance, and widen action scope only when evidence supports the change.

An agent is trustworthy when its authority, evidence and failure behaviour are explicit.

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