[R] How should we govern AI agents that can act autonomously? Built a framework, looking for input

As agents move from chatbots to systems that execute code, and coordinate with other agents, the governance gap is real. We have alignment research for models, but almost nothing for operational controls at the instance level, you know, the runtime boundaries, kill switches, audit trails, and certification processes that determine whether an agent is actually safe to deploy.

I’ve been building AGTP (Agent Governance Trust Protocol) to address this.

Trust Vector instead of a single score, four dimensions (controllability, bounding, auditability, trust inheritance) scored independently with anti-compensatory composite scoring

Inherent Risk calculation based on agent capabilities (read-only agent vs one with financial transaction access gets scored differently)

Progressive tiers (0-3) so a hobbyist’s sandbox agent and an enterprise financial agent don’t face the same requirements

Certification decay – trust degrades over time without revalidation

Explicit threat model for attacks on the governance layer itself (when someone attacks your audit logs or spoofs compliance tests)

The math is grounded in security engineering (weighted scorecards like CVSS/DREAD) but the specific weights are heuristic right now. I’m collecting community input to see where actual practitioners intuition agrees or disagrees with the current assignments.

I have a 10-minute anonymous survey, it’s in Google Forms, if anyone is interested in participating!

Not selling anything! lol