Companies are still struggling to enforce audits and approvals for agentic systems
Electrical-Hall8869 · reddit · 2026-07-21
An org is struggling to put real governance around agentic systems that can spend money, email customers, and open Jira tickets.
- Leadership wants end-to-end autonomous workflows, while security, legal, finance, and product all want different controls.
- The post criticizes the current state of governance as docs and spreadsheets nobody trusts, while agents chain tools and act with too much privilege.
- The author says the unsolved part is not logging after the fact, but runtime enforcement of approval steps and log integrity that auditors can trust.
- They ask how others handle identities, approvals, policy enforcement, and audit trails in practice.
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