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Kyndryl Launches Policy as Code for Agentic AI


Kyndryl Launches Policy as Code for Agentic AI
  • by: PR Newswire
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  • February 12, 2026

Kyndryl has introduced a policy as code capability within its Agentic AI Framework, enabling enterprises to govern agentic AI workflows in complex, highly regulated environments. This innovation translates organizational rules, regulatory requirements, and operational controls into machine-readable policies that enforce consistent, auditable, and trustworthy AI agent execution.

Quick Intel

  • Kyndryl launches policy as code to embed business and regulatory guardrails directly into agentic AI workflows, addressing compliance and control barriers.
  • 31% of customers cite regulatory or compliance concerns as a primary obstacle to scaling recent technology investments, including agentic AI.
  • The capability ensures deterministic execution, blocks hallucination impacts, provides audit-by-design transparency, and supports human supervision via dashboards.
  • Built on Kyndryl's experience managing nearly 190 million automations monthly, it improves explainability, reduces unexpected behaviors, and accelerates safe AI adoption.
  • Targets mission-critical sectors like financial operations, public services, and supply chains where predictability and reliability are essential.
  • Combines with Kyndryl's broader Agentic AI Framework to deliver governed, transparent, and aligned autonomous agents at enterprise scale.

Enterprises increasingly seek to integrate agentic AI for operational efficiency and faster decision-making, yet security, compliance, and governance risks often prevent broad deployment. Conventional controls frequently fall short in dynamic, multi-system environments, leading to potential errors, non-compliance, or unexplainable outcomes.

Kyndryl's policy as code approach overcomes these limitations by codifying policies that define permissible actions, boundaries, and decision paths for AI agents. This creates enforceable guardrails that prevent unauthorized or unpredictable behaviors while maintaining full traceability—each step logged and explainable for audit and oversight purposes.

The result is reduced operational risk, elimination of hallucination-driven impacts, and accelerated deployment of AI-native workflows under strict controls. Human-in-the-loop supervision remains integrated through dashboards that monitor adherence and enable intervention when needed.

"Kyndryl's policy as code capability overcomes limitations of conventional AI agent controls and provides the structure customers need as they adopt agentic AI solutions," said Ismail Amla, Senior Vice President, Kyndryl Consult. "By embedding and codifying business and regulatory requirements directly into AI agent operations, we can help customers execute AI workflow that is governed, transparent, explainable, and aligned with their organizational requirements."

Leveraging decades of managing mission-critical enterprise systems and vast automation scale, Kyndryl ensures these policy-governed agents operate reliably in regulated domains, supporting controlled autonomy without compromising safety or compliance.

 

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day.

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