Governance Operator

The Governance Operator—ask about the account, and approve what it proposes.

The Governance Operator is the chat surface in Control Center. Ask about platform activity, account usage, or a selected project. It coordinates the governance-review agents that hold the answer. You don't need to reconcile data across several screens.

It differs from the Console Operator in one important way: it doesn't act on its own. It stages each proposed change for your approval.

For general orchestration, see Operator. This page covers Control Center behavior.

The Governance Operator delegating a request to one of its governance-review agents.

At a glance

• Where: Control Center
• Scope: Account activity, or one selected project. It covers usage, cost, access, guardrails, and change history.
• Acts: never on its own. It stages an action and waits for you to approve it.
• Dispatches to: an operating team of governance-review agents. This is the agent team described on Operator.

What it does

It answers cross-platform governance questions. Ask what drove this month's cost, which agents were created recently, or which apps were published. It can also fetch the account's design systems and branding. The Operator routes each part to the relevant agent, then presents the combined result.

It orchestrates a team. The Operator interprets your intent, breaks the request into tasks, and assigns each task to a suitable governance-review agent. Agents report their results to the Operator, which returns one response.

It stages, rather than acts. It records the proposed fix. Nothing runs until you approve it.

It can narrow to one project. Control Center screens are account-wide. The Operator has its own project selection, so you can investigate one project without changing the wider view. See Accounts, Projects, Spaces for account and project scope.

It can run on a schedule, and it waits for you. Schedules in the top bar runs the Governance Operator at a set time, using the governance agents you choose, such as Agent Performance Analyst or Billing & Credit Manager. When a conversation ends on a question for you, it appears on Gates in Control Center's top bar, separate from Console's. Both work as they do in Console; see Schedules and Gates.

FAQs

Does the Governance Operator change things on its own?

No. It stages each proposed change and waits for you to approve it. Nothing runs until you do. That's the main difference from the Console Operator, which acts immediately. See Governance Operator.

What can I ask it?

Cross-platform governance questions about usage, cost, access, guardrails, and change history, for example what drove this month's cost, which agents were created recently, or which apps were published. It can also fetch the account's design systems and branding. See What it does.

Does it cover the whole account or one project?

Either. It covers account activity, or one project you select in the Operator. Its project selection doesn't change the account-wide view of the other Control Center screens. See What it does.

Can I turn its agents on or off?

No. Its governance-review agents are always available. Its side panel lists its agents and connections, but you can't turn any of them on or off; that's a Console Operator feature. See Notes and limitations.

Can it run on a schedule?

Yes. Schedules in Control Center's top bar runs the Governance Operator at a set time, using the governance agents you choose, such as Agent Performance Analyst, Billing & Credit Manager, or Platform Audit Investigator. See Schedules.

Are Control Center's Schedules and Gates separate from Console's?

Yes. Control Center's run and list only Governance Operator conversations; Console's run and list only Console Operator conversations. See Gates.

Troubleshooting

A change it proposed hasn't happened

It stages changes rather than making them. Approve the staged change for it to run. See What it does.

A conversation stopped and is waiting

When a conversation ends on a question for you, it appears on Gates in Control Center's top bar. Open it and answer. See Gates.

The answer covers the wrong scope

Check the Operator's own project selection: it can cover the whole account or one selected project. See What it does.

A schedule won't save, or runs at the wrong time

Name and Instructions are required, and a name of only spaces isn't accepted. Schedule times are in UTC. See Create a schedule.

A schedule didn't run

Check that it's Active, not Paused. If the Operator a schedule runs isn't active, the run is skipped. See Notes and limitations.

Related

Title

Operator

Description

How an Operator coordinates a team of agents.

Target

Operator

Title

Console Operator

Description

The Console Operator, and how it differs.

Target

Console Operator

Title

Agent Controls

Description

Stop individual agents or all agent activity during an emergency.

Target

Agent Controls

Title

Control Center

Description

The governance space where the Operator works.

Target

Control Center

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