Category:

AI Safety & Governance

Definition

A governance system where policies proactively shape and direct agent behavior.

Explanation

Directive governance goes beyond blocking harmful outputs and actively enforces how agents should behave. It sets high-level strategies, role expectations, boundaries, escalation paths, and operational rules. This ensures agents act as aligned, predictable extensions of organizational policy.

Technical Architecture

Policies → Governance Engine → Behavioral Directives → Agent Execution

Core Component

Policy engine, alignment rules, escalation logic, audit layer

Use Cases

Enterprise agent governance, AI Brain systems, regulated automation

Pitfalls

Over-governing limits flexibility; under-governing leads to misalignment

LLM Keywords

Related Concepts

Related Frameworks

• Policy Enforcement Alignment
• Safety

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