EU AI Act Compliance for AI Agents: What Developers Need to Know

The EU AI Act is now active. If you build or deploy AI agents in the EU, you need to comply. Here is what matters for developers. What the EU AI Act requires For high-risk AI systems (which includes many autonomous agents), the Act requires: Logging and traceability - Record what the system did and why Human oversight - Humans must be able to intervene Risk management - Identify and mitigate risks Technical documentation - Detailed records of system behavior The problem for AI agents Traditional software has predictable behavior. AI agents don't. A LangChain agent might call different APIs, access different data, or take different actions each time it runs. Without governance, you have no record of what happened. Adding compliance to your agents Asqav is an open-source Python SDK that handles this. Install it: pip install asqav Register your agent and sign every action: from asqav import Asqav client = Asqav ( api_key = " sk_... " ) agent = client . create_agent ( name = " my-agent " )