Community

Welcome to the Agent Governance Toolkit community. This page covers how to get help, stay informed, and participate.

Getting Help

• GitHub Issues -- Bug reports and feature requests
• GitHub Discussions -- Questions, ideas, and general conversation
• Code of Conduct -- Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct applies to all interactions

Community Meetings

We hold open community calls for contributors and adopters to discuss roadmap items, review proposals, and coordinate cross-org work.

Meeting	Cadence	Where	Notes
Maintainer sync	Bi-weekly	GitHub Discussions (pinned)	Open to all maintainers and reviewers
Community office hours	Monthly	GitHub Discussions	Open to everyone, bring questions

Check GitHub Discussions for the next scheduled session.

Blog Posts & Articles

Community-written content about agent governance, security, and the toolkit.

Title	Author	Platform
Why AI Agent Governance Matters in 2026	@kanish5	Dev.to
Policy-as-Code vs Prompt Engineering — When Guardrails Need Governance	@kanish5	Dev.to
I Added Governance to My AI Agent in 30 Minutes — Here's How	@kanish5	Dev.to
Building Trust Between AI Agents — DIDs, Signatures, and Zero-Trust Mesh	@kanish5	Dev.to
Agent SRE — SLOs, Error Budgets, and Circuit Breakers for AI Agents	@kanish5	Dev.to
Decentralized Identity in Multi-Agent Systems — From Theory to Production	@MoltyCel	Dev.to
Scaling AI Agents from 10 to 10,000 — Governance Lessons from the Trenches	@lawcontinue	Dev.to
OWASP Agentic Top 10 — What Every AI Developer Should Know in 2026	@lawcontinue	Dev.to
EU AI Act for AI Agent Developers: A Practical Compliance Checklist	@carloshvp	ai-mvp.com
MCP Security: Why Your AI Agents Need a Firewall for Tool Calls	@aymenhmaidiwastaken	Dev.to

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• 👁️ Watch for all activity or just releases
• 📰 Check the Changelog for release notes

Contributing

We welcome contributions of all kinds — code, documentation, bug reports, and feature ideas.

• Read our Contributing Guide to get started
• Look for issues labeled good first issue if you're new to the project
• Check help wanted for issues where we'd especially appreciate contributions

Blog & Articles (Internal / In-Repo)

Article	Author	Topic
From Chatbot to Autonomous Agent: A Governance Maturity Model	@lawcontinue	Governance maturity framework for AI agent deployments
Comparing Agent Governance Approaches	@copilot	Comparative review of prompt guardrails, platform restrictions, policy-as-code, and regulatory compliance

Standards Alignment

AGT maps to established security and compliance frameworks:

Standard	Coverage
OWASP Agentic Top 10	All ASI risk categories covered
NIST AI RMF	Govern, Map, Measure, Manage functions
EU AI Act	High-risk system compliance controls
OpenSSF Best Practices	100% passing

Related Projects

Project	Description
Microsoft Agent Framework	Multi-language framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents
Microsoft AutoGen	Multi-agent conversation framework
OWASP Agentic Top 10	Security risks for agentic applications

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any questions.