Asqav vs Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit - what is the difference

Microsoft released the Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) on April 2, 2026. I built Asqav, an open source Python SDK for the same problem space. They take fundamentally different approaches so here is an honest comparison. What they share Both tools exist because AI agents are being deployed without audit trails or governance. Both recognized that the EU AI Act enforcement deadline in August 2026 makes this urgent. Architecture Microsoft AGT is an enterprise policy management platform. It runs as a centralized service that manages agent permissions, monitors behavior, and enforces organizational policies. Think of it as an admin console for your agent fleet. Asqav is a developer SDK. You pip install it, add a few lines of code, and every agent action gets a quantum-safe signature (ML-DSA-65) chained to the previous one. It runs at the code level, not the infrastructure level. Enforcement model Asqav provides three tiers of enforcement: Strong: the MCP server acts as a tool proxy. The agent