Why Runtime Governance for LLM Agents Is Inevitable

What three independent research groups concluded in early 2026 — and what it means for anyone building agent pipelines today In the first quarter of 2026, at least three independent research groups published formal frameworks for the same problem: how to govern the behavior of LLM agents at runtime. That convergence is worth paying attention to. The Core Problem Traditional software has decades of formal specification tooling. Type systems, API contracts, assertions, interface specifications —...