Governance for autonomous AI agents

Your AI agents have authority.Can you prove they are under control?

AgentsLedger helps organizations govern autonomous AI agents, map their authority and boundaries, maintain evidence of controls, and assess readiness against leading certification, security and risk frameworks.

Built for autonomous AI governance and assurance readiness.

AGENT GOVERNANCE RECORD

Procurement Agent

PA-0042 · Production

Active

RISK

HIGH

HUMAN OWNER

Sarah Mitchell

AUTHORITY

High

EVIDENCE

84%

Authority Map

6 CAPABILITIES
Read ERPAllowed
Modify ERPAllowed
Create purchase orderAllowed
Approve purchaseHuman approval
Execute paymentProhibited
Approval required above $5,000

Assurance

Live
AIUC-181%
OWASP ACS74%
NIST AI RMF86%

31

SATISFIED

8

PARTIAL

5

GAPS

SAPSalesforceEmailMCP Server

Know your agents. Control their authority. Prove their governance.

CISOsAI GovernanceGRC TeamsInternal AuditRisk & Compliance

The governance problem

Software used to execute instructions. AI agents can now act on your behalf.

Autonomous AI agents increasingly receive access to systems, data, tools, APIs, infrastructure, customers and financial processes. Governance must move from documenting software to proving that delegated authority is controlled.

01

Who owns the agent?

02

What can it do?

03

What can’t it do?

04

How far can it go?

05

Who can stop it?

06

Which controls exist?

07

Where is the evidence?

08

Is it ready for scrutiny?

Agent Registry

Know every autonomous agent operating on your behalf.

Authority Map

Know exactly what each agent can do.

Authority Boundaries

Define how far its authority extends.

Agent Risk

Understand the consequences of autonomy.

Governance Controls

Know which controls should exist.

Evidence Ledger

Prove those controls exist.

Assessments & Assurance

Evaluate readiness against external requirements.

Continuous Readiness

Know when changes create new governance gaps.

Authority Map

Know exactly what each agent has the power to do.

Authority defines what an agent can do. Boundaries define how far it can go. AgentsLedger makes both explicit, reviewable and auditable.

High-Authority Agent

Procurement Agent

Classified from its capabilities, financial authority and operating context—not a manual label alone.

Procurement Agent

Authority profile · Production

High authority

Read ERP

SAP · Procurement workspace

Allowed

Modify ERP

SAP · Procurement workspace

Allowed

Create purchase order

SAP · Procurement workspace

Allowed

Approve purchase

SAP · Procurement workspace

Human approval

Execute payment

SAP · Procurement workspace

Prohibited

Delete records

SAP · Procurement workspace

Prohibited

FINANCIAL LIMIT

$5,000

ENVIRONMENT

Production

APPROVAL ABOVE LIMIT

Required

Controls & evidence

Don’t just say the control exists. Prove it.

AgentsLedger connects every expected Governance Control to the evidence that demonstrates it is designed, implemented and operating.

GOVERNANCE CONTROL

Human approval threshold

Human approval is required for purchase orders above $5,000.

Approval Policy.pdfVerified
SAP Configuration ScreenshotVerified
Transaction Test LogPartial

AGENT RISK ASSESSMENT

Procurement Agent

HIGH

Financial authority

High

Production access

Yes

External actions

Yes

Human approval

Partial

Reversibility

Medium

Controls missing

2

Evidence analysis flags missing, expired and inconsistent artifacts before they become audit findings.

Assessments & Assurance

One agent. Multiple assurance perspectives.

Select the certification-readiness, standards-alignment and risk-framework assessments relevant to the agent and the organization. Each perspective retains its correct scope and meaning.

AIUC-1

AIUC-1

Certification Readiness

Agent-level

81%Ready
O

OWASP Agent Control Standard

Standards Alignment

Agent-level

74%Aligned
N

NIST AI RMF

Risk Framework

Agent / Organization

86%Aligned
ISO

ISO/IEC 42001

Certification Readiness

Organization-level

68%Ready
CSA

CSA Agent Registry

Emerging Standard

Agent Registry

73%Aligned

PRIMARY READINESS ASSESSMENT

AIUC-1 Readiness

Certification Readiness · Agentic AI

76/100

31

Satisfied

8

Partial

5

Gaps

71%

Evidence

RECOMMENDATION

NOT READY FOR INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT

Resolve critical gapsProvide evidenceRe-run94 / 100 · Ready

FRAMEWORK VIEW

NIST AI RMF Alignment

Risk Framework Assessment · AI Risk Management

GOVERN88%
MAP91%
MEASURE67%
MANAGE78%
Overall alignment81%

AgentsLedger provides readiness and alignment assessments. Certification decisions remain the responsibility of the applicable independent certification process. OWASP and NIST views assess alignment and do not confer certification. ISO/IEC 42001 readiness is assessed at the organization level, not as certification of an individual agent. Draft and emerging specifications are clearly identified.

Crosswalk Engine

Register once. Assess against multiple standards.

Document authority once. Upload evidence once. AgentsLedger maps a normalized control library to applicable external requirements—without repeating the same governance work.

One control.

One evidence package.

Multiple assurance mappings.

GOVERNANCE CONTROL

Human Approval

Mapped requirements
AIUC-1
OWASP Agent Controls
NIST AI RMF
ISO/IEC 42001
CSA Agent Registry

Continuous readiness

Governance changes when your agent changes.

Model changes, new tools, expanded permissions, expired evidence and failed controls can all alter readiness. AgentsLedger makes the impact visible.

READINESS CHANGE DETECTED

Procurement Agent

Just now

AIUC-1 Readiness

94%81%

New payment capability detected

3 controls require review.

How AgentsLedger works

From autonomous agent to assurance-ready governance record.

01

Register

Create the governance record for the autonomous agent.

02

Map Authority

Define what the agent can do and how far it can go.

03

Assess Risk

Understand the consequences of autonomy and authority.

04

Apply Controls

Identify the governance controls required.

05

Collect Evidence

Prove that controls exist and operate.

06

Select Assessments

Choose relevant assurance targets.

07

Assess Readiness

Identify satisfied requirements and gaps.

08

Remediate

Resolve gaps before independent scrutiny.

Build assurance readiness

Your agents are gaining authority. Your governance should keep up.

Start with one autonomous AI agent. Map its authority, identify its risks, verify its controls and discover how prepared it is for independent scrutiny.