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Every Tuesday, a short field note on what was approved, who owns the decision, and what evidence survives after deployment.
June 16, 2026
An internal auditor asks who approved the ten thousand dollar auto-approval threshold inside an accounts payable agent, and no one in the room has the record. Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit, released April 2, 2026, can prove the rule was enforced. It cannot prove the rule was ever reviewed under the accountability model the AI agent was supposed to operate under.
Read issue 14 →June 9, 2026
At Build, Microsoft introduced agents that act without being prompted and a tuning loop that lets them keep changing after you authorize them. Your governance dashboard reads green while your authorization quietly goes stale. This week is about the gap the coverage ratio cannot see, and the one field that closes it.
Read issue 13 →June 2, 2026
Microsoft is forcing every enterprise to re-register its AI agents into the Agent 365 registry. The work is certain and the deadline is not, so it will happen quietly, as a technical task. Re-registering an agent is not the same as deciding it should still exist, and the moment Microsoft just opened is the cheapest re-authorization opportunity most organizations will ever waste.
Read issue 12 →