What is Governor Engine?
A Governor Engine is a runtime control layer that decides whether an AI agent's proposed action is permitted, within budget and safe to execute before it happens.
In more detail
It sits between the agent and the systems it can affect, enforcing tool permissions, spend ceilings, latency budgets and prohibited actions. When a limit is reached or confidence is low it escalates to a human rather than retrying unattended.
Why it matters
Governance written in a policy document does not constrain a running system. Enforcement has to happen at the moment of action, which is the only point where a wrong step can still be prevented.
How iLeaf approaches it
iLeaf's Governor Engine runs inside the client's own environment on open components, so the configuration and logs stay with them. Policy is agreed in plain language with risk owners before the agent is built.