Anyone can ship an agent by Friday. Nobody owns it by Monday.
Copilot Studio and Power Platform put agent building in the hands of business users — which is the point, and the problem. Those agents acquire connectors, credentials and standing data access, then outlive the person who built them. Govern360 inventories every agent across every environment, attaches an owner and an expiry, and governs what its tools are allowed to do.
The citizen-development governance gap. The Power Platform admin centre shows you environments, apps and flows. It does not tell you which agents touch regulated data, who is accountable for each one, how far a connector can actually reach, or whether an agent someone retired last quarter is still holding a live connection. Recent industry research found only about one in five organisations has a formal process for decommissioning agents — and roughly four in five discovered agents they did not know existed.
Where low-code agent governance breaks
None of these are exotic. They are the predictable consequence of letting thousands of people build automation, which is a good thing worth governing properly.
Environment sprawl
Agents and flows spread across default, developer and production environments, each with its own admins and its own DLP policy. There is no single list, so there is no single owner.
Connector reach is invisible
An agent is only as safe as the least restrictive connector attached to it. What a connector can actually read or write is rarely reviewed after the agent goes live.
Ownership decays
The builder changes team or leaves. The agent keeps running on a service principal nobody recognises, doing work nobody can explain, with access nobody re-approved.
DLP is environment-wide, not agent-aware
Power Platform DLP separates connectors by policy at the environment level. It cannot express that this agent may touch customer records while that one may not.
Consumption without a ceiling
AI credits and metered agent actions accrue per environment. Nothing attributes them to a business owner or warns before the month closes.
Retirement debt
Agents get switched off in name only. The connection, the credential and the standing access survive, unmonitored, because nobody is measured on deleting things.
What Govern360 adds
Tenant-wide agent inventory
Enumerates environments across the tenant and inventories the agents, flows and connections inside them — including the ones built outside your production environment.
An owner and an expiry on every agent
Each agent carries a named human owner, a business justification and a review date. Ownership that decays gets flagged rather than silently inherited by nobody.
Per-agent consumption and credits
AI events and credit consumption are read from Dataverse and attributed per agent, per environment and per team, feeding the Executive AI Bill and per-agent budgets.
Agent Action Control Plane
Designed so an agent's permitted actions are declared, reviewed and evidenced — with human review in the path rather than autonomous remediation.
MCP tool-manifest pinning
Where agents call tools through MCP, the tool manifest is pinned by SHA-256 so a silently changed tool definition is detected rather than trusted.
Non-human identity governance
The service principals, connections and app registrations behind your agents are inventoried and owned like any other identity, because that is what they are.
How it connects
Least privilege by design. The onboarding wizard produces a reader-role runbook rather than asking you to hand over System Administrator.
Tenant-level environment enumeration through the Power Platform admin API, so the inventory covers environments you may not have known were in use.
AI events and consumption are read from Dataverse to attribute activity and credits per agent. Onboarding generates a least-privilege reader-role runbook for your admin to apply.
Findings compile into configuration for the planes you operate, with a human reviewing and applying every change. No auto-remediation, no standing write credentials.
Retire an agent properly, in three moves
An agent with no accountable human is the finding, not an edge case. Ownership is assigned before anything else is decided.
Switching an agent off leaves its connection and credential live. Decommissioning tracks the service principal and connections through to actual revocation.
The decommission decision, who approved it, and confirmation the access is gone — recorded, so the same agent does not quietly reappear next quarter.
Questions, answered
How do I inventory every Copilot Studio agent in my tenant?
You need tenant-level enumeration rather than a per-environment view, because agents are commonly built in default and developer environments that central IT is not watching. Govern360 enumerates environments through the Power Platform admin API and inventories the agents, connections and flows inside each one.
Does Power Platform DLP already govern agents?
Power Platform DLP groups connectors into policies at the environment level, which is useful and blunt. It cannot express agent-level intent, attach an owner, evidence a control for an auditor, or tell you an agent has been abandoned. Govern360 is designed to add those layers on top.
What is agent retirement debt?
Agents that were retired in practice but never decommissioned in fact: the app is off, the connection and credential are live, and nobody is watching. Industry research suggests only around a fifth of organisations have a formal decommissioning process, which is why this accumulates quietly.
Do you need System Administrator access to our environments?
No. Onboarding generates a runbook for a least-privilege reader role so your admin grants only what discovery requires. Govern360 does not hold standing write credentials and does not auto-remediate.
Can we attribute Copilot Studio consumption to a business owner?
Yes. AI events and credit consumption are read from Dataverse and attributed per agent, environment and team, then rolled into the Executive AI Bill for showback or chargeback. Budgets alert and capture evidence rather than blocking usage.
What does MCP tool-manifest pinning protect against?
An agent trusting a tool whose definition changed after it was approved. Pinning the manifest by SHA-256 means a changed tool definition is detected and surfaced rather than silently accepted.