A reference architecture for governed agentic systems — synthesizing NIST, OWASP, CSA, ISO, EU AI Act, OpenTelemetry, MITRE ATLAS, and academic research into a composable governance framework.
- NIST AI RMF
- OWASP
- CSA
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Jesse Pike
30 years building security programs. The last year, building the agents that need governing.
Enterprise security leader with three decades across cybersecurity architecture, GRC, and advisory — from leading global security practices and coaching field teams to sitting across the table from CISOs during a breach. Over the past year I've been heads-down in a different way: writing agentic workflows, building governance primitives in Claude Code and Codex, and learning how autonomous systems actually behave at runtime. That practitioner experience, both enterprise security and hands-on agentic AI development, is where the Agentic Governance Framework (AGF) came from. Not theory. From shipping code and watching what breaks.
Recent Writing
All posts → Apr 9 Frontier Model Intelligence Brief: Claude Mythos Preview & OpenAI Spud April 2026 is shaping up to be the most consequential month in AI model history. Two unreleased frontier models represent generational capability leaps that will reshape cybersecurity, workforce dynamics, and AI governance. Apr 3 The Claude↔Codex Handoff Pattern I've Been Running for Months Most people run Claude and Codex as alternatives. Here's the coordination architecture where Claude specifies, Codex implements, and Claude validates, with circuit breakers. Mar 31 Giving Your AI Agents Memory That Travels With Them If you're running specialist agents in Claude Code, they forget everything between sessions. Here's how I built a two-layer persistence system so each agent carries its own backlog, learnings, and context regardless of which project it's launched from. Mar 20 The Puzzle: Sorting the Pieces of Agentic Governance The governance landscape for agentic AI is fragmented across fifteen frameworks, standards, and research programs. AGF sorts the pieces into a coherent reference architecture. Mar 19 From Architecture to Governance: What Building Agentic Systems Taught Me About What's Actually Missing What started as an architecture framework for agentic systems grew into something larger. Here's how AFAS became the Agentic Governance Framework.
Projects
All → v2 Coming Soon
A multi-tenant SaaS platform for AI governance and compliance — helping organizations profile AI systems, surface relevant risks from the MIT AIRISK database, and map to established frameworks like NIST AI RMF.
- Next.js 15
- TypeScript
- Supabase
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Writing & Updates
Occasional writing on security architecture, AI governance, and what I'm learning along the way.