The pilot agent works. It triages tickets, calls the right tools, and the demo lands well. Then the risk committee asks three questions: what is this agent allowed to do, who approved it, and how do we prove what it did? Nobody in the room has a clean answer. The logs show activity, but a log is not a control, and the program that looked weeks from production is suddenly a year of retrofitting.
This whitepaper gives enterprise architects a reference framework for making the decisions that prevent that stall. It covers the choices that are expensive to reverse, how to classify what an agent may do on its own versus what needs a human, what to weigh when choosing models and frameworks, and where controls have to sit if they are going to stop an action rather than just report it. It closes with a checklist to run before your first agent goes live. Download it to see the full framework.