The EU AI Act Was Written for Models. Your Agents Need Runtime Compliance. (opens in new tab)

The EU AI Act's full applicability date is August 2, 2026. The compliance evidence the regulation was designed to evaluate — model cards, training-data lineage, evaluation suites, conformity assessments — describes a model artifact at rest. The systems most enterprises will actually deploy by August are autonomous agents that use those models at runtime, and the act has no surface for the behavior that happens between the prompt and the tool call. That gap is not a drafting oversight. It is t...