Agent Governance: Designing Human Override Without Killing Autonomy

Enterprise AI agents fail when governance is bolted on after go-live. The better pattern is to map which steps are reversible, which are high-impact, and which must pause for a person.

Human override is not a single kill switch. It is a set of gates: approval before write actions, soft stops on unusual tool sequences, and clear ownership when an agent is stuck.

Audit trails make override real. Every tool call, prompt version, and approver decision should be queryable so compliance and ops teams can reconstruct what happened.

Start with one workflow and publish a RACI for agent actions. Expand autonomy only after override latency, false-positive pauses, and escalation quality meet your bar.

Digicane designs agents with least-privilege tools and logged human-in-the-loop controls so autonomy and accountability grow together.