Palo Alto, Calif., October 13, 2026. ValidMind, the authority layer for the agentic economy, today announced that it has validated ValidMind Agent Authority to run on Red Hat’s industry-leading platforms. With this solution, ValidMind aims to enable organizations to run autonomous agents using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, while keeping agent actions within the necessary policy and regulatory boundaries.

Enterprises are already accountable for the agents working for them, but often do not have the proper authority over what those agents do. True enterprise governance requires real-time control over autonomous agents. Operational risk can significantly increase the moment an agent acts, and traditional oversight systems can no longer mitigate or govern instantaneous operational decisions at the necessary speed while also meeting standard compliance requirements.

ValidMind Agent Authority assigns a manager and charter to every agent to drive organizational accountability and enforce what an agent may do alone, what needs human sign-off, and what it may never do. Every action is evaluated against those guardrails before it executes. Routine actions within an agent’s charter proceed automatically at machine speed. Actions that require oversight pause for human sign-off, where a person can grant approval scoped to that single action and set to expire, never a standing grant. Anything outside the charter is blocked before it reaches the target system, and every denial is recorded.

“You are already accountable for the agents working for you. You just have no authority over what they do. Every leader who wants their organization to use AI agents is asking the same question: what this thing should be allowed to do, right now, in production. If you can only answer that after the fact, you don’t have governance. You have forensics.”

Jonas Jacobi, CEO, ValidMind

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform executes the automation tasks that keep enterprise IT running, such as provisioning, configuration, and remediation. When an AI agent sets out to trigger one of those tasks, ValidMind Agent Authority evaluates the request first and decides whether it should proceed. Agent Authority is built on open source, and it sits in the call path today without custom integration, leaving Red Hat’s automation execution layer untouched.

“As AI becomes part of everyday business operations, organizations need the ability to manage AI confidently, safely and in full alignment with evolving regulatory standards. Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies and ValidMind’s expertise in AI model management can help customers establish a trusted operational foundation for enterprise AI. We help organizations scale AI, while maintaining the visibility and control needed as AI becomes embedded across the business.”

Richard Harmon, VP & Global Head of Financial Services at Red Hat