Companion annex
Enterprise AI Accountability on the Microsoft Stack
This companion page keeps the print book connected to the platform details that move faster than a book can. It preserves the parts readers need to verify, fill in, copy, and revisit as Microsoft documentation changes.
Standing framing note
This page maintains, against current Microsoft documentation, the details that move faster than a print schedule can track: console procedures and admin center paths, license tier names and plan boundaries, preview statuses, capability details the book deliberately kept out of print, and corrections to the first edition.
Primary documents move on their publishers' schedules, not the author's. The modules below are built to be updated one detail at a time as those primary sources change.
Platform detail values are intentionally marked pending until Sougata Roy supplies the current source and verification date for each module.
Fast-moving platform detail
Each module is a standing placeholder for current console paths, plan boundaries, preview or GA status, and the Microsoft Learn source that verifies the detail. The product names have been checked against current Microsoft documentation; the operational values have not been invented.
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Digital Appendix A
The printed Appendix A is a blank one-page form. This digital version keeps the same fields in the same order so a team can fill it in during review, copy the labels into an internal workflow, or adapt it into its own control record.
This is a base template, meant to be adapted into the organization's own governance forms, not adopted verbatim.
Adapted from Sougata Roy, "Agent Authorization Document," The Authorization Layer framework library, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21245690, CC BY 4.0.
Open Zenodo DOI(opens in new tab)Framework-to-source mapping
The book's original frameworks are listed here so the table structure is in place. The source-reference cells remain pending until Sougata Roy completes final review.
| Framework | Public record it stands on |
|---|---|
| The Accountability Assumption | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| The Authorization Layer | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Intent Architecture Stack | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Chain Authorization Gap | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Authorization Coverage Lifecycle | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Disposition Protocol | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Organizational Agent Controls | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Tenant Agent Reconciliation | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Deployment Accountability Map | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Agent Substrate Readiness Model | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
| Governance Readiness Matrix | Pending author sign-offSource mapping pending author sign-off before this table is treated as final. |
Governance Debt, Agent Sprawl, and Intent Gap are shared industry terms, not this book's coinage. The book's contribution is their operationalization for agentic deployments on the Microsoft stack. Every named framework above is the author's synthesis. None is a regulator's formal construct, and no agency should be read as having defined or endorsed any of them.
Corrections log
Corrections will be appended here as dated entries, with the page or chapter reference, what changed, and why the change was made.
| Date | Page or chapter | What changed | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| No corrections recorded. | |||
Related research
The annex points back to the research record behind the book: the white paper, the authorization framework library, and the reusable governance record.