Security for autonomous AI agents
The agent governance toolkit developed by Microsoft offers security layers such as policy enforcement, zero-trust identity and sandboxing for autonomous artificial intelligence agents. The software aims to protect against vulnerabilities in the OWASP Agentic Top 10 list.
Updates
- August 2, 2026: Stars 5,342 → 5,564, latest release v4.1.0 (June 9, 2026).
What you get
- Policy control over agent actions
- Zero trust authentication
- Isolated operating environment support
Installation
pip install agent-governance-toolkit[full]If you don't write code
I am developing an artificial intelligence agent and I want to restrict this agent's use of tools. Can you please prepare an example code structure for me to create a YAML policy file using agent-governance-toolkit and how to secure the tool functions in my Python code according to this policy?
Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit. Follow the official instructions in the README of this repository for setup and execution.
Before starting, check which OS we are on and if the necessary tools (e.g., Python, Node.js, Git, Docker) are installed. Install any missing ones step-by-step according to this system.
Create a new, empty folder to work in. Do not touch any files outside this folder and do not delete anything. Tell me what you are going to do in one sentence before running each command.
Tell me what I should see on the screen at the end of each step. If an error occurs, I will paste the error message to you exactly as it is, and we will fix it together.
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