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The Agent Control Plane Blog

Deep-dives on AI agent observability, runtime policy enforcement, FinOps token economics, and EU AI Act compliance architectures.

Engineering Blog6 min read

AI Agent Cost Attribution: Why Enterprises Can No Longer Afford Black Box AI Spending

Knowing your monthly LLM bill isn't enough. Organizations need to know exactly which agent, workflow, department, customer, and action generated every dollar of AI spend.

August 17, 2026Read article
Engineering Blog7 min read

Runtime Policy Enforcement in AI Agents: Stopping Unsafe Actions in Real Time

Enforcement isn't just about writing rules—it's about stopping unsafe actions in real time, before the damage is already done.

August 17, 2026Read article
Engineering Blog5 min read

Rethinking FinOps for Autonomous AI Agents

Traditional cloud FinOps was built for stable infrastructure. Autonomous agents demand a new discipline to track, attribute, and control dynamic costs.

July 29, 2026Read article
Engineering Blog8 min read

What Is an AI Agent Control Plane?

An AI agent control plane discovers, identifies, authorizes, observes and stops AI agents at runtime.

July 28, 2026Read article
Engineering Blog6 min read

Guardrails and Policy Enforcement for OpenAI Agents

Built with the OpenAI Agents SDK? Agentis captures guardrail spans automatically and enforces runtime policy with @govern before irreversible actions run.

July 17, 2026Read article
Datadog Alternative7 min read

Agentis vs Datadog: Choosing an Agent-First Control Plane

Datadog monitors your estate and adds LLM analytics. Agentis is the OpenTelemetry runtime control plane: observe agents, enforce policy at the agent boundary, and prove what happened.

August 7, 2026Read article
LangSmith Alternative6 min read

Agentis vs LangSmith: Multi-Framework Governance vs Single Ecosystem

LangSmith helps you debug and ship agents in the LangChain ecosystem. Agentis helps you observe agents across frameworks, enforce policy at the agent boundary, and prove what happened.

August 7, 2026Read article
Part 2 · AI Agent Governance Handbook9 min read

AI Observability vs AI Governance: What's the Difference?

A one-question test to tell observability from governance, the EchoLeak case study, and why the gap is measured in milliseconds — not philosophy.

July 12, 2026Read article
Part 1 · AI Agent Governance Handbook10 min read

What Is AI Agent Governance? The Definitive Guide

Four planes of control, why observability alone isn't governance, and how to map your stack to the EU AI Act, NIST RMF, and ISO 42001.

July 12, 2026Read article