Agent Governance Toolkit is Microsoft’s public-preview, MIT-licensed runtime governance toolkit for autonomous AI agents. It focuses on the control plane around agent actions rather than prompt wording alone: policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, audit trails, reliability controls, kill switches, rate limiting, and MCP security gateway patterns for systems that can call tools or touch sensitive workflows.
Current source signals are concrete enough for engineering evaluation. The GitHub repository describes coverage across the OWASP Agentic Top 10 and remains active, while PyPI lists agent_governance_toolkit 4.1.0 as a public-preview package for Python 3.9+. The Microsoft docs and launch material add details around policy engines, DID-style identity, plugin signing, provenance checks, sandboxing, and MCP gateway controls.
AGT is best treated as governance infrastructure that complements agent frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, or custom MCP stacks. Teams still need to define policies, map identities, integrate logs, test failure modes, and review support expectations before production use. It is promising for platform and security teams, but it is not a turnkey compliance stamp or a replacement for eval, red-team, or observability tooling.