Why agent infrastructure needs governance
Autonomous agents are in production now. The layer that matters is not the model — it is the infrastructure that scopes, routes, and stops them.
Autonomous agents are no longer a demo. They run in production, call real tools, and spend real money. But the tooling most teams reach for still treats the model as the whole product — when in practice the model is just one layer of a much larger control problem.
The layer that matters now is infrastructure: how do you scope identity for an agent, how do you decide which model handles which task, and how do you stop a runaway loop before it spends a week of budget in an afternoon?
Governance is the feature
A spend cap that fires before a tool runs is more valuable than a beautiful dashboard that shows you the spend after the fact. Caps, status checks, and an append-only audit stream are not red tape — they are the difference between an agent you can ship and one you have to babysit.
At Refusion we made those primitives first-class: provision a scoped key, set a cap, route the task, and audit every run. The rest of your stack can stay the same.