Beyond BYOK: Why governance matters for AI agents

This post introduces GitLab Duo CLI and its integration with the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, emphasizing the need for governance in agentic AI workflows beyond individual developer tools. It highlights the platform's capabilities for enterprise-level control, including prompt injection detection, composite identity, auditable actions, and custom instruction files for defining agent permissions. The post contrasts this with GitHub's Copilot CLI's focus on individual workstations and details how Duo CLI enables secure CI/CD pipeline automation with a mix of self-hosted and GitLab-hosted models.