The whole agent-reliability project is trying to engineer the one thing a tool can’t have: accountability. Data governance already named this. The agent is a custodian, and we keep trying to promote it to owner.
I built audit logs and self-voiding approval gates to make an autonomous agent safe to run unattended, then realized I’d rebuilt a regulation the FDA shipped in 1997. The regulated world solved agent trust before agents existed.
The samples post ended on seating a data steward. This is what you build around that seat in a regulated life sciences org: the roles you actually need, the order to do it in, and why the regulation is the only budget argument that ever works.