agent-governance-patterns SKILL.md skillA
agent-governance-patterns from marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/agent-governance-patterns@git:20260710.0115f49Pins git:20260710.0115f49 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex
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skills/agentic/agent-governance-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260710.0115f49, committed Jul 10, 2026
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- May 20, 2026
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- 20,964 bytes
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- 4
- License
- none declared
Design and implement governance controls for tool-using and multi-agent AI systems, including policy enforcement, approval gates, audit trails, trust scoring, rate limits, and safe tool execution.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Agent Governance Patterns
Patterns for adding safety, trust, and deterministic policy enforcement to tool-using and multi-agent AI systems.
## Overview
Governance patterns ensure AI agents operate within defined boundaries — controlling which tools they can call, what content they can process, how much they can do, and maintaining accountability through audit trails. Use this skill to design or implement controls; use a compliance-focused skill when the task is to score an existing system against a formal standard.
```
User Request → Intent Classification → Policy Check → Tool Execution → Audit Log
↓ ↓ ↓
Threat Detection Allow/Deny Trust Update
```
## Use This Skill When
- **Agents with tool access**: Any agent that calls external tools (APIs, databases, shell commands)
- **Multi-agent systems**: Agents delegating to other agents need trust boundaries
- **Production deployments**: Compliance, audit, and safety requirements
- **Sensitive operations**: Financial transactions, data access, infrastructure management
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/agent-governance-patterns@sha256:bb70a921bbb5f319The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.0115f49, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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| git:20260710.0115f49 latest | 2026-07-10 | 0115f49 | 20,964 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.f6c6e91 | 2026-05-20 | f6c6e91 | 20,963 B | A | view |
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Source
marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex · 4 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3tz3atp2gxqlxlll GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/agent-governance-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb70a921bbb5f319a808ada28261ab40928c4ad71753cd28288da367fa76e081
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