> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rotascale.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What agent governance is

> The unit of governance moves from the model to the action, and why that changes what you have to build.

Model evaluation tells you how a system scores on a benchmark. It does not
constrain what an agent may **do** on a Tuesday afternoon with a payment API in
reach.

As models become agents, the unit that needs governing shifts from the model to
the **action**. An action has an actor, an authority, a limit, a moment, and a
consequence. None of those are properties of a set of weights.

## What that means in practice

* **Authority is stated in advance**, by a named human, as data rather than as a
  convention in a design document.
* **It is enforced before the action**, not reconciled afterwards.
* **The decision is recorded either way**, and the refusals are the half that
  proves the control operated.

## What it is not

It is not evaluation, not a gateway, and not observability. Gateways see tokens.
Observability tells you what happened. Neither states what an agent may do
before it acts. The full argument is on
[rotascale.com/why/](https://rotascale.com/why/).