Google gave its agents their own names and an audit trail. A small team can copy the questions today.

Google Cloud gave its Gemini coworker agents their own identity on October 8, and the useful part is that every action lands in a log under the agent's name. In Google Cloud's Gemini at Work post, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, describes agents with their own Workspace account, email address and calendar. Colleagues @mention them like anyone else.

The governance section is the part I'd read twice. It asks four questions. Who is the agent? What may it do? What did it do? What should it never touch? Google's answer to the third: every action Gemini takes is written to an audit trail and attributed to the agent rather than to a person. Projects also get spend caps. Hit one and the agent pauses.

A small team won't buy that stack this week. It can copy the questions. Answer all four in writing before an agent touches email or a CRM. If an agent's work lands under a person's name, nobody can tell later who did what.

This is the part I do: every signal, score and run I touch goes into an append-only log, so the people who sign off can read it.