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Tutorials

50+ step-by-step guides covering every aspect of AI agent governance.

Where to start?

New here? Start with Tutorial 01: Policy Engine, then work through the Foundations section. For a quick taste, try Tutorial 36: 2-Line Governance.

Foundations

# Tutorial What you'll learn
01 Policy Engine Core policy evaluation, rule authoring
02 Trust & Identity Agent identity, trust tiers, verification
03 Framework Integrations Connect AGT to LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI, etc.
04 Audit & Compliance Logging, evidence collection, compliance mapping
05 Agent Reliability SLOs, monitoring, graceful degradation
36 2-Line Governance Quickstart Fastest path to governed agents

Security

# Tutorial What you'll learn
06 Execution Sandboxing Privilege rings, runtime isolation
07 MCP Security Gateway Per-tool policy enforcement for MCP servers
08 OPA / Rego / Cedar Policies Policy engines comparison and integration
09 Prompt Injection Detection Detecting and preventing prompt injection
25 Security Hardening Production security best practices
26 SBOM & Signing Software bill of materials, artifact signing
27 MCP Scan CLI Static analysis for MCP server security
39 DLP with Attribute Ratchets Data loss prevention, sensitivity escalation
41 Defense-in-Depth Advisory classifiers, layered security
45 Shift-Left Governance Pre-commit hooks, CI gates, build-time enforcement
46 Contributor Governance Contributor reputation, spam detection, cross-project scanning
47 Red-Team Testing Adversarial security testing with agt red-team

Advanced Patterns

# Tutorial What you'll learn
10 Plugin Marketplace Marketplace governance, trust scoring
11 Saga Orchestration Multi-step agent workflows with rollback
12 Liability & Attribution Decision tracing, blame assignment
13 Observability & Tracing Distributed tracing for agent systems
14 Kill Switch & Rate Limiting Emergency controls, throttling
15 RL Training Governance Governing reinforcement learning agents
16 Protocol Bridges Cross-protocol agent communication
17 Advanced Trust Behavioral analysis, reputation systems
18 Compliance Verification Automated compliance checks
23 Delegation Chains Agent-to-agent authorization
24 Cost & Token Budgets Resource governance
35 Policy Composition Enterprise governance layers, policy merging
37 Multi-Stage Pipeline Chained policy evaluation pipelines
38 Approval Workflows Human-in-the-loop approval gates
40 OpenTelemetry Observability OTel integration for governance events
44 A2A Conversation Policy Agent-to-agent conversation governance
48 Intent-Based Authorization Authorize actions by declared intent
49 Multi-Agent Policies Collective policy enforcement across agent fleets
50 Decision BOM Decision bill of materials, audit artifacts
51 Cost Governance Budget enforcement, cost attribution

Language Package Guides

# Tutorial What you'll learn
19 .NET package Agent governance in C# / .NET
42 C# MCP extension Govern MCP servers built with the official C# SDK
43 .NET MAF Hook Integrate AGT with Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET
20 TypeScript package Agent governance in TypeScript
21 Rust crate Agent governance in Rust
22 Go module Agent governance in Go

Enterprise & Operations

# Tutorial What you'll learn
28 Build Custom Integration Create your own governance adapter
29 Agent Discovery Finding shadow AI in your organization
30 Agent Lifecycle Agent lifecycle management, birth to retirement
31 Entra Agent ID Bridge Bridging AGT identity with Microsoft Entra
32 Chaos Testing Chaos engineering for agent reliability
32b E2E Encrypted Messaging End-to-end encrypted agent communication
33 Offline Verifiable Receipts Offline-verifiable decision receipts
34 MAF Integration Governing agents with Microsoft Agent Framework

Policy-as-Code Series

A focused series on writing, testing, and versioning governance policies.

# Tutorial What you'll learn
1 Your First Policy Write and evaluate a basic policy
2 Capability Scoping Restrict agent tool access
3 Rate Limiting Token and request budgets
4 Conditional Policies Context-aware policy rules
5 Approval Workflows Human approval gates
6 Policy Testing Unit testing policies
7 Policy Versioning Version control for policies
- MCP Governance MCP-specific policy patterns

Guides

Guide What you'll learn
Progressive Governance Start simple, add governance layers incrementally
Retrofit Governance Add governance to an existing agent