The Agent's Word Is Not Enough: External Validation in the Agentic Governance Stack (opens in new tab)

This article was originally published on EthereaLogic.ai. The first two articles in this series established a distinction that anchors the whole governance framework: the layers that live in documents tell the agent what to do, and the layers that run as code are what make the system trustworthy. Documents explain the rules. Hooks make rules physically impossible to violate inside the harness. But hooks intercept actions, not claims. The hook in GovForge blocks a direct push to main. It says ...