A category is forming around agent collaboration. Four of the questions it asks are about coordination. The fifth is not, and it has been quietly folded in with the others as though it were the same kind of problem. It is not.
Agent governance is shipping as libraries you load into the agent's own process. That is the one place a control cannot live. A control the subject can reach is not a control.
For a year the argument was that agent authority needs a decision at runtime, not a check at the start. The research has caught up, proved the sharp version, and drawn a clear line around what nobody has solved.
FIQ is a governance control plane for the agentic era. No copy. No canonical record. No governance committee. Identity and context resolved in-flight, at query time, with confidence scoring.
Fix Governance argues the problem. The product that operationalizes this argument is at Read more at federatediq.ai.
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