A Unified Policy Architecture (UPA): The Governance Kernel for Enterprise AI Operating Systems

Abstract

Enterprise AI is evolving into an Enterprise Operating System where autonomous AI agents can plan, reason, use memory, invoke tools, execute workflows, and collaborate with other agents. This shift creates a new governance challenge: existing authorization, security, guardrails, and compliance mechanisms are fragmented and are not designed to govern autonomous AI as a unified system. This paper introduces the Unified Policy Architecture (UPA), a governance architecture for Enterprise AI Operatin

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@misc{raghav2026unified,
  title = {{A Unified Policy Architecture (UPA): The Governance Kernel for Enterprise AI Operating Systems}},
  author = {Prabhu Raghav and Balamurugan Pandi and Arul Vivek and Shek Mohammed and Sridhar S},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  eprint = {2609.06543},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06543}
}