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Runtime Policy

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

A runtime policy is a governance rule that is evaluated and enforced while an AI agent is actively executing, rather than at deployment time. Runtime policies respond to real-time context — the data being accessed, the current risk score, the identity making the request — and can block, throttle, log, or escalate actions without requiring a redeployment.