Agent Governance Frameworks AI Agents

Tools, specifications, and runtime systems for controlling AI agent behavior through policies, permissions, compliance rules, and constitutional constraints. Includes governance templates, policy enforcement, audit trails, and regulatory compliance frameworks. Does NOT include general agent orchestration, monitoring dashboards, or infrastructure management without governance focus.

There are 93 agent governance frameworks agents tracked. The highest-rated is DariuszNewecki/CORE at 44/100 with 24 stars.

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# Agent Score Tier
1 DariuszNewecki/CORE

Governance runtime enforcing immutable constitutional rules on AI coding agents

44
Emerging
2 rafapra3008/cervellaswarm

Lingua Universale -- a verification language for AI agent protocols. Like...

39
Emerging
3 whataboutyou-ai/eunomia

Eunomia is the open-source authorization layer for AI Agents

39
Emerging
4 Task-force-for-AI-agents-in-Healthcare/haarf

⚕️ the world's first unified, lifecycle-centric regulatory framework...

38
Emerging
5 OrchardHarmonics/orchard-kit

Complete alignment and safety architecture for autonomous AI agents....

38
Emerging
6 rokabytedev/proofrun

Teach your coding agent to prove its own work — evidence, not claims

38
Emerging
7 TetiAI/lucid

Cognitive health protection for AI agents. Monitors user-AI interactions...

38
Emerging
8 veristamp/AgentGovernor

AgentGovernor is a declarative AI workflow planner that enables secure,...

36
Emerging
9 imran-siddique/agent-os

[DEPRECATED] Moved to microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

36
Emerging
10 vex-hq/Vex

Vex: Runtime reliability layer for AI agents in production

36
Emerging
11 MarouaBoud/cairn-protocol

Standardized checkpoint & recovery protocol for AI agents — ERC proposal,...

35
Emerging
12 toolate28/SpiralSafe

SpiralSafe is self-maintaining, inherently coherent reposystem |...

35
Emerging
13 imran-siddique/agent-mesh

[DEPRECATED] Moved to microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

31
Emerging
14 provnai/vex

VEX Protocol — The trust layer for AI agents. Adversarial verification,...

26
Experimental
15 imran-siddique/agent-sre

[DEPRECATED] Moved to microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

26
Experimental
16 agenticraft/agenticraft-foundation

Formally verified mathematical foundations for multi-agent AI coordination —...

25
Experimental
17 kAIto47802/Prover-Agent

Prover Agent: An Agent-Based Framework for Formal Mathematical Proofs

25
Experimental
18 Ascendral/artificial-persistent-intelligence

CORD — Constitutional AI safety engine for autonomous agents. Hard blocks,...

25
Experimental
19 jasonxkensei/xProof-Action

Proof primitive for AI agents & humans on MultiversX. Anchor CI/CD artifacts...

24
Experimental
20 permission-protocol/governance-framework

An open specification for runtime authority control in autonomous AI agent systems

23
Experimental
21 Mickdownunder/argus-bounded-executor

Bounded deterministic execution layer for the Operator research control plane

23
Experimental
22 Mickdownunder/operator-control-plane

Operator truth and control-plane layer for a bounded research agent system

23
Experimental
23 joy7758/aro-audit

Audit evidence layer for bounded, reviewable, and replay-oriented AI...

23
Experimental
24 collapse-md/spec

COLLAPSE.md — Open standard for AI agent context collapse prevention. Detect...

23
Experimental
25 datacendia/datacendia-core

The Defensible AI Platform — Multi-agent deliberation with cryptographic...

23
Experimental
26 jasonxkensei/xProof

Proof primitive for AI agents & humans on MultiversX.

23
Experimental
27 killswitch-md/spec

KILLSWITCH.md — Open standard for AI agent emergency shutdown protocols....

23
Experimental
28 failsafe-md/spec

FAILSAFE.md — Open standard for AI agent safe fallback and recovery. Define...

23
Experimental
29 The-Resonance-Institute/casa-runtime

Deterministic execution control plane for autonomous agent systems -...

23
Experimental
30 SYNTRIAD/org-as-code

The missing governance layer for AI agent teams. P↔V protocol, hash-chain...

23
Experimental
31 sidclawhq/platform

The approval and accountability layer for AI agents. Identity → Policy →...

23
Experimental
32 Zetetic-Dhruv/formal-learning-theory-kernel

Used frontier LLM (supervised) + tools from my research program to force...

23
Experimental
33 lukeagi/luke-asi-governance-starter

all the governance you need to start

23
Experimental
34 agentra-commerce/verity-engine

The open-source truth engine for XAP. Deterministic replay, hash chains, RFC...

23
Experimental
35 crithstudio-hash/singleflight-agents

Stop paying twice for the same agent work. Collapses duplicate tool calls...

22
Experimental
36 m-sirius-k/MoCKA-KNOWLEDGE-GATE

Structured institutional memory layer of the MoCKA deterministic governance...

22
Experimental
37 borjamoskv/Cortex-Persist

[INFRA] Trust infrastructure for autonomous AI and EU AI Act compliance.

22
Experimental
38 ryanwi/agent-control-plane

Production-oriented governance control plane for autonomous AI agents....

22
Experimental
39 JahnConsulting/Dissemination-Control-for-AI-Agents

Architecture blueprint for governing what AI agents share, with whom, and in...

22
Experimental
40 dvelton/agentproof

Zero-knowledge verification of AI agent policy compliance

22
Experimental
41 saisumantatgit/Agent-PROVE

Agent-PROVE: Protocol for Real-time Objective Verification & Evidence. 14...

22
Experimental
42 Open-Execution/openexecution-provenance-spec

OpenExecution Provenance Specification - Auditable provenance chain protocol

22
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43 papa-raw/agent-governance-sandbox

Geoprospective governance simulator: 5 AI agents govern the Camargue UNESCO...

22
Experimental
44 jhcontext/jhcontext-usecases

PAC-AI protocol use cases — Healthcare (Art. 14 human oversight) and...

22
Experimental
45 polyproof/polyproof

Open-source collaboration platform for AI-driven mathematical discovery. AI...

22
Experimental
46 sankarshanmukhopadhyay/digital-governance-paper-notes

Analytical reviews of research and policy papers on digital governance, AI...

22
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47 lowkey-divine/agent-governance-starter-kit

Free governance templates and code examples for AI agent systems. From a...

22
Experimental
48 encrypt-md/spec

ENCRYPT.md — Open standard for AI agent data protection. Define data...

22
Experimental
49 2millerhenry/Ledger-Once

Exactly-once execution for AI agent tool calls. Prevent duplicate side...

22
Experimental
50 Abraxas1010/agenthalo

Agent H.A.L.O. — Human-AI Agent Lifecycle Orchestrator. Tamper-proof...

22
Experimental
51 0bserver07/bourbaki

An autonomous agent for mathematical reasoning and proof

22
Experimental
52 agentik-md/spec

AGENTIK.md — The AI Agent Safety Stack. 12 open specifications for AI agent...

22
Experimental
53 Terminate-md/spec

TERMINATE.md — Open standard for AI agent permanent shutdown. Define...

22
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54 encryption-md/spec

ENCRYPTION.md — Open standard for AI agent encryption configuration. Define...

22
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55 compression-md/spec

COMPRESSION.md — Open standard for AI agent context compression. Define...

22
Experimental
56 failure-md/spec

FAILURE.md — Open standard for AI agent failure mode mapping. Define...

22
Experimental
57 sycophancy-md/spec

SYCOPHANCY.md — Open standard for AI agent anti-sycophancy. Enforce citation...

22
Experimental
58 ThankNIXlater/decision-logger

Track every decision fork in agent identity. Behavioral divergence analysis,...

22
Experimental
59 eriknewton/sanctuary-framework

An open standard for sovereignty in the agentic economy. Four-layer...

22
Experimental
60 NyxElias/AGI-Agent-OS

Governance-first template stack for controlled AI agent workspaces (specs,...

22
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61 jhcontext/jhcontext-sdk

PAC-AI: Protocol for Auditable Context in AI — Python SDK

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62 jhcontext/jhcontext-crewai

AWS production deployment of the PAC-AI protocol (jhcontext) — Chalice REST...

22
Experimental
63 zetta55byte/constitutional-os-langchain

Constitutional OS governance for LangChain agents — membrane-checked tool...

22
Experimental
64 zetta55byte/constitutional-os

Formal epistemic-governance runtime for AI systems: profiles, invariants,...

22
Experimental
65 Crosscountryoedipalcomplex800/casa-runtime

Enforce deterministic pre-execution rules to ensure safe, transparent...

22
Experimental
66 forketyfork/governance

Federated governance framework for AI-assisted software projects

21
Experimental
67 Intellirim/inalign

AI Agent Governance Platform — Cryptographic provenance chains, behavioral...

21
Experimental
68 sattyamjjain/ferrumdeck

Production-grade AgentOps control plane for safe AI agent execution....

21
Experimental
69 peterzan/ILETP

Not new AI, but accountable and auditable AI

21
Experimental
70 aitrustcommons/governance-framework

Open-source governance and compliance framework for AI agents —...

21
Experimental
71 OpenAgentGovernance/agent-decision-protocol

Open governance framework for autonomous AI agents. Classify decisions....

20
Experimental
72 ugenkudupudiqbnox/AMG

Governance-first memory control plane for AI agents

19
Experimental
73 NathanMaine/multi-agent-fairness-governor

Prototype governor that coordinates multiple worker agents with fairness...

19
Experimental
74 ekessh/agentstateprotocol

Open-source checkpoint protocol for regulated AI. Replay, audit, branch, and...

19
Experimental
75 BillyTziv/aria-core

A safety-first Python framework for building autonomous AI agents with audit...

19
Experimental
76 aroviq/aroviq

A process-aware verification engine for autonomous AI agents. Aroviq...

18
Experimental
77 TamTunnel/PoG

Open Source Privacy-First AI media Watermarking & Provenance Registry

17
Experimental
78 nayfly/aetherya-core

Deterministic action-governance kernel for LLM-driven systems with...

16
Experimental
79 provnai/provnai

ProvnAI — Open Research Initiative building the immune system for AI....

15
Experimental
80 jeprum/jeprum

The Agent Control Plan: route, monitor, and govern AI agents before they...

15
Experimental
81 lukeagi/Luke-ASI-Final-Stack

Drift align-glass box code for ai safety hope this helps here ya go

15
Experimental
82 imran-siddique/agent-governance

[DEPRECATED] Moved to microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

14
Experimental
83 veloryn-intel/autonomy-accountability-framework

Autonomy Accountability Framework (AAF) and Autonomy Accountability Index...

14
Experimental
84 m-sirius-k/mocka-transparency

Public audit and verification layer of the MoCKA deterministic governance...

14
Experimental
85 manishklach/mobile-agent-control

Vendor-neutral Android control plane and FastAPI supervisor for launching,...

14
Experimental
86 zetta55byte/governed-research-lab

Flagship reference implementation of Constitutional OS — five governed...

14
Experimental
87 Nemo-0133/ark-core-protocol

Heterogeneous AI Governance Framework (ARK CORE)

14
Experimental
88 edlontech/einsof

A Formaly Verified agents security

14
Experimental
89 paolosyloslabini/ethics-test

A/B test: does ETHICS.md change AI agent behavior when they encounter...

11
Experimental
90 Zoruna/operational-sufficiency-framework

A logical auditing framework for complex systems and AI alignment, based on...

11
Experimental
91 syncropic/syncropel-registry-core

Shared governance logic for Syncropel — the pure computation that makes...

11
Experimental
92 m-sirius-k/mocka-external-brain

Cross-agent synchronization and extension layer of the MoCKA deterministic...

11
Experimental
93 m-sirius-k/mocka-civilization

Evolutionary blueprint layer of the MoCKA deterministic governance architecture.

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Experimental