The Governance Gap Is a Boundary Problem

One of my early factory prototypes had a clean audit trail. Every action an agent took, recorded. Who did it, what it touched, and when it ran. I was proud of it. Then I watched an agent remove a status enum from a database column. Not a value I wanted changed. It was a status that other records depended on. The audit trail caught it. Logged the delete, the actor, the timestamp. Caught it perfectly, and caught it after the status was already gone. That’s the moment the “governance gap” stopped being a phras