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CROSS-CATEGORY: 'Agent Ops / Governance' Hardens Into Its Own SaaS Category as Agent Sprawl Becomes the Enterprise Problem
A distinct control-plane category for governing agent fleets is forming across vendor types: Zafin AIOS (June 24, banking — agent registration, orchestration, governance enforcement, proof-of-work, cost controls), Thoughtworks Agent/works (June 16, cloud-agnostic governed runtime with a central registry, evaluations, and spend controls), Galileo's open-source Agent Control guardrails platform, and Microsoft Agent 365's policy-based runtime controls entering public preview in June. Unlike the incumbent 'governed MCP server' play, these are independent control planes built specifically to inventory, evaluate, and budget sprawling agent estates — a net-new buying line item for CIOs.
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