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AI agents are moving from demos to production – but who governs what they do at runtime?
The Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) is an open source, MIT-licensed framework from Microsoft that enforces deterministic policy before every tool call, message, and action an agent takes.
In this talk, Imran walks through how AGT brings zero-trust identity, policy-as-code, tamper-evident Merkle audit chains, and a Kubernetes sidecar model to any AI agent, regardless of framework.
About Imran
Imran Siddique is a Principal Group Engineering Manager and Agentic AI Architect at Microsoft. He is the creator of the AGT and the “Scale by Subtraction” philosophy for hyper-scale systems. A holder of multiple patents, Imran currently leads the engineering of backend services and knowledge graphs, powering next-generation AI agents.
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AI agents are moving from demos to production – but who governs what they do at runtime?
The Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) is an open source, MIT-licensed framework from Microsoft that enforces deterministic policy before every tool call, message, and action an agent takes.
In this talk, Imran walks through how AGT brings zero-trust identity, policy-as-code, tamper-evident Merkle audit chains, and a Kubernetes sidecar model to any AI agent, regardless of framework.
About Imran
Imran Siddique is a Principal Group Engineering Manager and Agentic AI Architect at Microsoft. He is the creator of the AGT and the “Scale by Subtraction” philosophy for hyper-scale systems. A holder of multiple patents, Imran currently leads the engineering of backend services and knowledge graphs, powering next-generation AI agents.
🌍 Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.
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