Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
As AI agents grow ever more capable, enterprises racing to put them to work across applications, workflows, and products face a new challenge: ensuring an agent does what it’s supposed to do when it’s deployed across different environments.
Microsoft is trying to solve this problem with a new open-source standard called Agent Control Specification, or ACS, that aims to give developers a more consistent and granular way to control what AI agents are allowed to do.
The specification essentially lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow. The rules can define what the agent may do, what it must not do, when a human should approve an action, and what evidence should be logged for later review. These policy files are checked at several “interception points” when the agent is off performing a task to make sure it stays within the guardrails.
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