Use the Governance Operator

Every Governance Operator task in Control Center: ask about the account, approve staged changes, schedule runs, and answer gates.

This guide is organized by task. Find what you want to do in the list below, then follow the steps. Each task links to the reference page it comes from.

The Governance Operator is the chat surface in Control Center. It answers questions about account activity, usage, cost, access, guardrails, and change history by coordinating governance-review agents. Unlike the Console Operator, it doesn't act on its own: it stages each proposed change for your approval.

Task	Go to
Ask a question about the account	Ask a question
Narrow the question to one project	One project
See which agents are working on the request	Agents
Approve a change the Operator proposes	Approve a change
Run the Governance Operator on a schedule	Schedule a run
Answer a conversation that is waiting for me	Gates

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Ask

Ask a question about the account

Select Operator in the Control Center navigation, then type your question. For example, 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 breaks the request into tasks, assigns each to a governance-review agent, and returns one combined response.

The Governance Operator delegating a request.

Reference: Governance Operator.

Narrow the question to one project

Control Center screens are account-wide. The Operator has its own project selection: choose a project in its project picker (All projects by default) to investigate one project without changing the wider view.

See which agents are working on the request

The Agents panel lists the governance-review agents the Operator dispatches to, such as Billing & Credit Manager, with a count of how many are working, for example 1 working. The agent also shows as Working in the chat.

In Control Center, the Governance Operator's agents are always available: you can't turn any of them on or off. Reference: Agents & connections › Notes and limitations.

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Act

Approve a change the Operator proposes

The Operator never acts on its own. It records the proposed fix and stages it; nothing runs until you approve it.

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Schedules and gates

Run the Governance Operator on a schedule

1

Open Schedules

Select Schedules in Control Center's top bar, then + Add Schedule. Schedules made in Control Center run the Governance Operator.

2

Fill in the schedule

• Name — required. A name of only spaces isn't accepted.
• Schedule — Preset (a Frequency of Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, and a Time (UTC)), or Custom cron with a Cron Expression.
• Instructions — required, in Plain Text or JSON.
• Agents this run may use — governance agents such as Agent Performance Analyst, Billing & Credit Manager, or Platform Audit Investigator. Leave it empty to let the run reach every agent in the pool.

3

Save

Check the footer summary, such as Runs every day at 09:00 UTC, then select Add Schedule.

The schedule's ⋯ menu has Pause, Resume, Edit, and Delete. Times are set in UTC. Reference: Schedules.

Answer a conversation that is waiting for me

Select Gates in Control Center's top bar. It lists the Governance Operator conversations you started that stopped to ask you something, each with its title, the agent asking, and how long it has waited. Select one to open the conversation at the question, then pick an answer, write your own, attach a file when asked, or Skip.

Control Center's Gates lists only Governance Operator conversations; Console's lists only Console Operator conversations. Reference: Gates.

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Related pages

• Governance Operator and Operator
• Schedules and Gates
• The Console counterpart: Use the Console Operator

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