VeriWeave Govern: Evidence-Gated Deterministic Runtime Governance for Enterprise AI Agents

Abstract:Enterprise artificial-intelligence agents increasingly call tools, modify infrastructure, and process protected data, creating a need to separate action generation from action authorization. This article presents VeriWeave Govern, a deterministic runtime governance layer that evaluates structured agent actions against versioned policies, validates typed evidence, applies fixed deny > review > allow precedence, routes consequential actions to accountable human review, and records replayable tamper-evident audit state. GovernBench evaluates the design over 30 independent seeds and 60,000 oracle-labelled cases spanning five enterprise domains, adversarial evidence, out-of-distribution actions, and temporal policy evolution. VeriWeave achieves 0.9888 mean accuracy, 0.9836 macro-F1, zero observed aggregate false allows, and zero observed Governance Attack Success Rate on the evaluated cases. Six ablations show that evidence gating, deny precedence, out-of-distribution fail-safe behavior, human review, contradiction handling, and temporal replay contribute complementary safety. The deployed API additionally passes 12/12 end-to-end scenarios and a 40,040-request concurrency matrix with zero failures. A separate 150-case EU/Austria regulation-grounded evaluation uses frozen predictions and two independent blinded human annotators, who agree on all decisions. On this set, deterministic engines remain conservative, while a Gemma 4 31B comparator aligns more closely with the human consensus. The results expose a measurable safety--utility trade-off and motivate evidence-aware, replayable governance as an independent control plane for enterprise agent execution.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Software Engineering (cs.SE)

arXiv:2609.37457 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2609.37457v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

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