YAML Policies and SQLite Audit Trails - What Production AI Governance Actually Looks Like

Most AI governance conversations stop at "we log everything." That is observability, not governance. Observability tells you what happened after the fact. Governance stops the bad thing before it executes. Today we shipped two features that make that distinction concrete: a YAML policy engine and a SQLite audit brain. Here is what they do and why they matter. The Problem We run 13 AI agents in production. Each agent has different permissions, different risk levels, and different access needs. A bookkeeper agent should never call external APIs.