A Unified Policy Architecture (UPA): The Governance Kernel for Enterprise AI Operating Systems
Enterprise AI is evolving into an Enterprise Operating System where autonomous AI agents can plan, reason, use memory, invoke tools, execute workflows, and collaborate with other agents. This shift creates a new governance challenge: existing authorization, security, guardrails, and compliance mechanisms are fragmented and are not designed to govern autonomous AI as a unified system. This paper introduces the Unified Policy Architecture (UPA), a governance architecture for Enterprise AI Operating Systems. UPA provides a unified policy model for governing AI and agents, tools, workflows, memory, enterprise resources, and agent-to-agent interactions and enterprise business rules. It extends...
| Authors | Prabhu Raghav, Balamurugan Pandi, Arul Vivek et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 6 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 6 September 2026 |
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