AIG-290AI Governance

Governing Agentic AI: Permissions, Tools and Oversight

AI agents don't just answer, they act. Decide what an agent may do, control its tools and permissions, and stop it safely when something goes wrong.

9 lessons About 3 hours 4 ALCs Certificate on completion

What you'll be able to do

  • Decide how much autonomy an agent gets for each type of action
  • Give agents their own identity with least-privilege permissions
  • Require approval for consequential actions and show approvers what matters
  • Log, monitor and test a stop procedure before the agent goes live
You finish with

An agent governance record

What's in it. Purpose and scope, autonomy by action type, identity and permissions, tools and their review, approval rules and what approvers see, guardrails in code, logging and monitoring, the tested stop procedure and the accountable owner.

You build it lesson by lesson, using your own organization, and submit it for your certificate. It's yours to keep and adapt.

Who it's for

Engineering leaders, security architects and AI governance teams deploying agents.

What's inside

  1. 1Where the requirement comes from 18 min
  2. 2How small teams and enterprises meet it 16 min
  3. 3Purpose, autonomy and accountability 22 min
  4. 4Identity, permissions and tools 24 min
  5. 5Guardrails, approval and injection 22 min
  6. 6Logging, monitoring and stopping 20 min
  7. 7Hands-on lab: small team choose one 22 min
  8. 8Hands-on lab: enterprise choose one 24 min
  9. 9Finish and submit your deliverable 20 min

Built for your size

The requirement is the same everywhere. How you meet it depends on who you have. You pick the lab that matches your organization.

Small team or early-stageSmall organization: agents inside everyday tools, so their own scoped access, reading freely and writing sparingly, confirmation for outward actions, only reviewed tools and a weekly look at the log.
EnterpriseMany agents and tool servers, so an inventory, managed agent identities, a reviewed tool catalogue, standard approval rules, central logging, behavioral monitoring and tested stop controls.

How you earn the certificate

Submit your finished deliverable, which is scored against a published rubric, and pass a short scenario quiz. Your certificate goes to your wallet and can be checked by anyone on the public register.

Ready to build an agent governance record?9 lessons, about 3 hours. Start whenever you're ready.
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