Guides

Cornerstone guides

The definitive references on securing, governing, and operating AI agents — start here, then go deep.

AI Agent Audit Trail: The Complete Guide (2026)
AI Governance & Compliance

AI Agent Audit Trail: The Complete Guide (2026)

What an AI agent audit trail must record, why app logs fail audits, how tamper evidence and offline checks work, and what EU AI Act Art. 12 asks.

Cornerstone guide19 min
AI Agent Control Plane: The Complete Guide
AI Strategy

AI Agent Control Plane: The Complete Guide

What an AI agent control plane is, why it emerged, how it differs from an API gateway, and the seven capabilities a production agent deployment needs.

Cornerstone guide20 min
AI Agent Governance: The Complete Guide (2026)
AI Governance & Compliance

AI Agent Governance: The Complete Guide (2026)

AI agent governance explained: control points, guardrails, human-in-the-loop oversight, audit trails, budgets, and the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001.

Cornerstone guide20 min
AI Agent Security: The Definitive Guide
AI Agent Security

AI Agent Security: The Definitive Guide

AI agent security and agentic AI security explained: identity, authorization, guardrails, trust scoring, A2A, audit logging and incident response.

Cornerstone guide22 min
AI Gateway: The BYOK LLM Gateway Guide (2026)
Platform & Operations

AI Gateway: The BYOK LLM Gateway Guide (2026)

What an AI gateway is, how it differs from MCP and API gateways, what to require from a bring-your-own-key LLM gateway, and where its limits are.

Cornerstone guide14 min
Identity for AI Agents: Non-Human IAM Guide
Identity & Access

Identity for AI Agents: Non-Human IAM Guide

Identity and access for AI agents: the NHI lifecycle — ephemeral scoped credentials, rotation, revocation — plus the human IAM that governs operators.

Cornerstone guide20 min