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AI engineering and platform teams that need centralized, open source runtime governance for production agent fleets
About Agent Control
Agent Control is the open source control plane for AI agents, built to establish a new standard for governing agent behavior at scale. It solves the problem of scattered, hardcoded checks by giving teams a centralized governance layer with step-level enforcement that can be managed from a single control plane and updated in real time without touching agent code. Developers can make any function governable by adding the control() decorator, turning meaningful decision points inside an agent into independently governed control points with their own policies. When a decorated function executes, Agent Control evaluates the input or output against the active policy and returns a decision: deny, steer, warn, log, or allow. If the decision is denied, the SDK raises a ControlViolationError before the unsafe action can proceed. Policies are decoupled from code, so developers decide where to place control hooks while policy teams decide what those hooks enforce.
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