Authority is not equal

Why the table scores authority, not governance.

The reviewed public material shows a fast-moving market around agent governance, runtime security, identity, gatewaying, observability, and lifecycle management. Microsoft describes runtime interception, agent identity, framework integrations, and compliance evidence collection in its Agent Governance Toolkit materials. Google documents policy, gateway, and agent identity controls for Gemini Enterprise. AWS AgentCore documents policy, gateway, identity, runtime, sandbox, registry, and observability services. Those are meaningful controls, so the table marks several cells as Yes or Partial where the public docs support them.

The stricter question is narrower: does the product publicly show an execution-bound authority layer that issues single-use signed permits or denial receipts, produces content-free audit evidence, and lets governance be replayed without exposing raw content? Cisco DefenseClaw, Palo Alto Prisma AIRS, IBM watsonx.governance, and ServiceNow AI Control Tower all document important adjacent governance, security, or orchestration capabilities, but the reviewed materials do not show the full SUPEREGO pattern. That is why the table is conservative: Partial means an adjacent control exists; No means no public evidence was found for that exact capability.

Sources reviewed: Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit, Google policies, Google gateway, Google identity, AWS AgentCore, Cisco DefenseClaw, Palo Alto Prisma AIRS, IBM watsonx.governance, and ServiceNow AI Control Tower.