Control planes

Governance above the harness: policy, permissions, approvals, budgets, trust, settlement, and audit between agent intent and execution.

Code Atelier Governance SDK - the MIT Python SDK that puts scope, budget, approval, and loop gates in front of LLM calls and writes an HMAC audit chain to your existing Postgres.
Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit - the MIT multi-language toolkit for deterministic policy, identity, sandboxing, SRE, and compliance, with a critical authentication writeup to read first.
Okto Pulse - the Elastic-2.0 local-first SDLC workbench that blocks coding-agent status transitions until spec coverage and delivery evidence are met.
Paperclip - the MIT self-hosted control plane for a company of agents, heartbeats, budgets, and governance, about 88k stars in seven months.
SettleBridge - the trust and policy gateway for agent-to-agent settlement, with escrow, reputation, and Merkle audit trails, and unresolved license metadata.
SIDJUA - the governance-first orchestrator with a five-stage pre-action pipeline, frozen since April 2026 with its announced reopening date missed.
TinyAGI - the one-person-company orchestrator that stalled in March 2026, kept as the category’s first consolidation record.
Veto - the Apache-2.0 authorization kernel that holds or blocks risky agent tool calls before execution and records offline-verifiable receipts.

Its members are compared on shared rows in the Control Planes Feature Matrix.

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