# Microsoft — Your agent’s guardrails have a bypass

- Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-27T17:14:46+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://commandline.microsoft.com/agent-hooks-framework-neutral-ai-governance-contract/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19129-your-agent-s-guardrails-have-a-bypass
- Subject: Foundry / Responsible AI

Microsoft published Agent Hooks, an open, framework-neutral governance contract for AI agents, along with SDKs in Python, TypeScript, .NET, Rust, and Go, and a 47-scenario conformance kit. The contract defines eight interception points and three verdicts to standardize guardrail enforcement across agent frameworks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://commandline.microsoft.com/agent-hooks-framework-neutral-ai-governance-contract/:

> Today we’re publishing Agent Hooks, specified as AGENT-HOOKS-0.1: an open, framework-neutral governance contract for AI agents, and a common interoperability layer that any framework can implement and any control can target.

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