Agent Governance

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Agent Governance is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by github in awesome-copilot.

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Install Agent Governance

Copy Agent Governance into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/agent-governance ~/.claude/skills/agent-governance

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/agent-governance/SKILL.md in github/awesome-copilot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/agent-governance
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Agent Governance does

Agent Governance provides patterns for adding safety, trust, and policy enforcement to AI agent systems. Use when building agents that call external tools, need audit trails, or require policy-based access controls.

Agent Governance is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Agent Governance comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, ai, awesome and custom-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Agent Governance Patterns

Patterns for adding safety, trust, and policy enforcement to AI agent 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.

User Request → Intent Classification → Policy Check → Tool Execution → Audit Log
                     ↓                      ↓               ↓
              Threat Detection         Allow/Deny      Trust Update

When to Use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Governance

What else does github publish alongside Agent Governance?
Agent Governance is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/awesome-copilot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Prompt Engineering Safety Review, AI Readiness Assessment and AI Ready. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Governance does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/awesome-copilot page.
How does Agent Governance compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Agent Governance ranks #146 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agent Governance against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.