Red Hat leads open-source project to automate AI governance
Red Hat open-sources asago: turning AI governance policy into deployable controls. Compliance finally meets ops.
Why it matters
Governance-as-code is becoming operational reality. Practitioners managing compliance risk in production AI systems now have an open framework to automate policy enforcement — bridging the persistent gap between what compliance teams write and what engineering teams actually deploy.
The key facts
11 to knowRed Hat (IBM subsidiary) announces asago open-source project
asago = AI Safety and Governance Orchestration
Designed to operationalize AI governance policies as deployable controls
Intended to connect compliance teams and engineering operations
Community-driven open-source model
Addresses governance-as-code automation gap
Red Hat (IBM) launches asago — AI Safety and Governance Orchestration open-source project
Aims to connect compliance, data, and AI teams by automating governance policy-to-controls workflow
Addresses the operational/compliance gap in AI deployment—policy exists but enforcement is manual
Open-source model (community-driven governance tooling)
Announced August 4, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today announced the formation of asago, an open-source community project intended to turn artificial intelligence governance policies into operational controls that can be deployed with AI systems. Short for AI Safety and Governance Orchestration, asago is intended to…