Why AI Agent Governance Matters in 2026
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A few weeks ago I was browsing GitHub looking for open source projects to contribute to. I stumbled on Microsoft's agent-governance-toolkit and decided to dig in. What I found surprised me - not because the code was impressive (it was), but because the problem it solved was one I hadn't thought seriously about before. We talk a lot about building AI agents. We don't talk nearly enough about what happens when they go wrong. The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents In 2026, AI agents aren't a research curiosity anymore. They're running in production.