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Mickai Ebook · 22 pages · 17 May 2026

What is Governance, for an AI Agent?

Governance for AI is not a policy document. It is a cryptographic position. This ebook is the engineering walk-through of what governance actually means when the system being governed is an autonomous agent.

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Inside this ebook

Governance for AI redefined as the cryptographic position the operator holds over agent actions, plus the policy layer above it.

Part I: Governance, defined
1. Policy, technical, and cryptographic layers
2. What the regulator actually requires
3. The governance gap in commercial AI
Part II: The Engineering of Governance
4. Policy Brain in the Mickai SIOS
5. Audit Ledger Brain
6. Permissions Brain and Revocation Brain
7. Quorum Brain
Part III: Governance in Practice
8. Sign-off chain for the board
9. Incident review by the regulator
10. Annual governance recital
Part IV: The Substrate
11. Why governance without cryptography is unenforceable
12. The OAR primitive
13. Closing
About the author

Micky Irons

Founder of Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618, England and Wales). Named inventor on the Mickai SIOS patent corpus, recorded on the UK Intellectual Property Office public register at numbers GB2607309.8 to GB2610422.4. Trade mark Mickai registered at UK00004373277 (classes 9 and 42, filed 15 April 2026). Before founding Mickai, Micky was a Sellafield site worker, and the egress constraint observed from inside the regulated workstation is the engineering origin of the substrate.