CIO questions · Security & governance
How do I govern agents without stopping innovation?
The short answer
Separate building from publishing. Teams should experiment quickly; production requires identity, versioning, declared capabilities, policies, evaluation, permissions, observability and ownership. Governance stops being a committee reconstructing what happened and becomes part of execution.
How to decide
- Build freely; publish under control
- Production: identity, version, declared capabilities, policies
- Plus evaluation, permissions, observability and ownership
The Onni principle
Governance should be produced by execution, not reconstructed afterward.
The architecture behind it
- Build
- Evaluate
- Publish
- Registry
- Runtime policy