Agent governance

Govern every agent, wherever it's built

Build agents anywhere. Govern them through Vayon AI. The Agent Control Center keeps one Unified Agent Inventory of internal, external and code agents — each with an owner, a risk level, permissions and a governed identity. Significant actions pause for human approval, and every run, change and approval is kept as reviewable evidence.

Govern. Route. Audit.

One inventory for every agent

Vayon AI keeps a single Unified Agent Inventory of every agent it can identify — agents built inside Vayon AI, external agents built on any framework, and code agents. One place to see what each agent is, who owns it, how risky it is and what it may do.

Vayon AI Agent Control Center showing the Unified Agent Inventory with internal, external and code agents, filterable by type.
One inventory for every agent Vayon AI can identify — internal, external and code. Demonstration environment with synthetic agents (Northstar Manufacturing); not a live customer system.

Filter and govern by type

Filter the inventory by category — internal, external or code — to review and manage each kind of agent under the same governance model.

The Unified Agent Inventory filtered to internal agents.
Filter the inventory by agent type. Demonstration environment with synthetic agents (Northstar Manufacturing); not a live customer system.

Build an agent from inside Vayon AI

Register an agent from inside the product: give it a business and technical owner, a risk level, a sensitivity ceiling, and explicit limits on the tools, actions and task types it may use. An AI assist can draft these fields from a short description — it saves nothing until you review and confirm.

The Vayon AI agent registration form with fields for ownership, risk level, sensitivity ceiling, allowed tools, actions and task types, and an AI auto-fill assist.
Register an agent from inside Vayon AI: ownership, risk, sensitivity ceiling and permissions. The AI auto-fill drafts fields for review and saves nothing before the human confirms. Demonstration environment with synthetic agents (Northstar Manufacturing); not a live customer system.

Bring external agents under governance

Register an external agent and bind it to an authorized technical identity — an integration client — so it can only act through an approved machine identity. Vayon AI also surfaces external agents seen in authenticated gateway traffic, from explicit Agent-ID metadata, that are not yet registered — as safe metadata only, never a prompt or payload — so you can review and register them.

An external agent card in Vayon AI showing business owner, risk level, permissions and the bound integration client that gives it an authorized technical identity.
An external agent bound to an authorized technical identity, with owner, risk and permissions. Demonstration environment with synthetic agents (Northstar Manufacturing); not a live customer system.

Human approval for significant actions

A significant action — a data write, a high-impact or high-sensitivity step, an external call — pauses for a human decision instead of running on its own. The request is bound to an exact action plan. Separation of duties is the default, and any check that fails keeps it: a setting can allow a requester to approve their own request, and a compliance profile overrides that setting and requires a second person regardless.

Vayon AI agent action approval queue showing a significant action awaiting human review.
Actual Vayon AI interface shown with synthetic demonstration data. Synthetic demonstration data; not a live customer environment.

How the approval flow works

Request, policy evaluation, approval required, human decision, revalidation, execute or block, audit evidence. Policy evaluation intersects the actor's authority, the agent's own grants, its workload identity and organizational policy — an agent can never widen its own authority. Before an approved action runs, Vayon AI re-checks the action-plan fingerprint, the agent's version, its lifecycle and the approval's validity; if the agent or its plan changed, the approval no longer applies. Not every action needs approval — read-only, low-impact work can run within policy.

Evidence for every run, change and approval

Vayon AI keeps a read-only record of what each agent did, what changed and who approved what. Runs, an immutable version history and the approval trail are bound to each action plan's fingerprint — safe metadata only, never the agent's payload, prompt or secrets.

The read-only agent evidence screen showing a run scorecard, run timeline, immutable version history and the approval trail bound to each action plan fingerprint.
Read-only evidence: runs, immutable version history and the approval trail bound to each action. Safe metadata only — never the agent's payload, prompt or secrets. Demonstration environment with synthetic agents (Northstar Manufacturing); not a live customer system.

Design, test, publish and operate governed agents

Agent Studio uses the same authoritative agent, workflow, resource and permission models as the runtime — there is no parallel permission system. Start from governed templates and business roles, validate the design, simulate access against the same authorization primitive the runtime uses, review a deterministic risk assessment, publish a version with a field-level diff that shows where permissions widened, inspect run evidence including a decision receipt, and roll a definition change back.

  • Explicit resource and operation grants, tools, workflows, scheduled runs and human approvals.
  • A Test Lab that evaluates scenarios with the runtime's own authorization primitive rather than re-implementing it.
  • Deterministic risk assessment — a bounded helper, never a model's judgement, and it blocks nothing by itself.
  • Versioned publish with an impact diff, and rollback of definition changes. Credentials are never held in a snapshot, and live resource grants are not reverted by a rollback.
Agent Studio showing a published agent: active, version v1, execution mode Approval required, and the four-eyes approver panel.
Actual Vayon AI interface shown with synthetic demonstration data. Synthetic demonstration data; not a live customer environment.

The AI Organization Map

See agents, resources, systems, models and governed relationships in one organizational map, with declared relationships kept visually distinct from observed activity. Activity and cost overlays are available where the evidence supports them, and a broken overlay never blanks the structural map.

The Vayon AI organization map: agents, resources, systems and models connected through one governed gateway.
Actual Vayon AI interface shown with synthetic demonstration data. Synthetic demonstration data; not a live customer environment.

Governed, not hands-off

Vayon AI governs agents built anywhere — it registers them, binds their identities, sets their permissions, evaluates their actions and keeps the evidence. It provides a governed runtime for enterprise agents and workflows, with explicit resource and operation grants, tools, scheduled runs, human approvals and auditable runs. Agents act within policy, and anything that mutates stops for a one-time human approval — a governed runtime, not an open framework that runs arbitrary code.

The agent's tool grants, each tool carrying the rule that governs it — a write tool proposes a change and returns an approval id rather than writing.
Actual Vayon AI interface shown with synthetic demonstration data. Synthetic demonstration data; not a live customer environment.

See an agent approved, refused and recorded

The interesting part of agent governance is what happens when an agent asks for something it should not get.