AI Agent Governance Before the EU AI Act Deadline

The EU AI Act establishes a risk-based framework for AI systems affecting EU users, with prohibited practices already enforced and updated planning deadlines of December 2, 2027 for standalone Annex III high-risk systems and August 2, 2028 for high-risk systems embedded in regulated products. High-risk applications, including those used in employment, credit, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, face obligations involving continuous risk management, data governance, technical documentation, human oversight, event logging, and retention of relevant records, while provider and deployer roles determine the specific responsibilities involved. The text emphasizes that autonomous agents create additional concerns such as privilege escalation, oversight evasion, behavioral drift, prompt injection, and opaque multi-step actions, requiring granular access controls, scoped credentials, monitoring, and traceable audit trails. It recommends a phased approach beginning with AI inventory and risk classification, followed by gap assessment, centralized governance implementation, and ongoing validation, while noting that penalties can reach €35 million or 7% of global revenue for prohibited-practice violations. It presents MintMCP as an infrastructure option intended to centralize tool access, policy enforcement, logging, credential management, shadow-AI detection, and compliance evidence across multiple AI platforms.

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