Every agent passes its own governance review — but who checks agents against each other?

HimalAIan · reddit · 2026-09-30

A practitioner argues AI governance is stuck on a per-agent view — access, approvals, logging — while agent-to-agent interactions go unchecked. Example: a procurement agent allowed to expedite orders books freight against a cost center a finance agent froze an hour earlier; both followed their rules, but the company made a commitment it didn't want. Config fixes work for deterministic workflows, but agents decide at runtime across team-owned tools, and change management reviews each one separately. The author poses three open questions: do reviews cover inter-agent interactions, who decides conflicts between approved agents, and is anyone testing for this before incidents?

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