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AI accountability after the demo is over

Every Tuesday, a short field note on what was approved, who owns the decision, and what evidence survives after deployment.

The Governance Gap
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Agent Sprawl is three populations, not one. The approved one holds the most authority.

September 8, 2026

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Approved Is Not Governed: The AI Agent Inventory Gap

Agent Sprawl is the difference between what an organization approves and what exists in practice. It consists of three groups with different origins and control requirements, and the approved one may hold the greatest authority.

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Nobody Could Say When It Last Worked

September 1, 2026

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Nobody Could Say When It Last Worked

On 1 July 2026, the existing Agent 365 real-time protection settings moved to a new policies screen, and rules set to block stopped enforcing that day without raising an error. The rule is still in the console and still says block. What that proves is that somebody set it up once.

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Someone Approved That Agent. Can Anyone Say Why?

August 25, 2026

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Someone Approved That Agent. Can Anyone Say Why?

Microsoft Digital reports visibility into more than 500,000 agents through Agent 365, while the decision to publish an agent still runs through a risk assessment workflow the company built itself. The approval click creates a permission. It does not record why the agent exists.

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