Is AutoGen safe for production multi-agent workflows?

AutoGen provides powerful multi-agent orchestration but ships with no built-in execution governance — every agent runs with the same credentials, trusts every other agent by default, and can execute arbitrary code without validation.

AutoGen's GroupChat pattern enables powerful agent collaboration but introduces critical security gaps:

• Unrestricted code execution: The UserProxyAgent with code_execution_config can run arbitrary Python with full system access
• No trust boundaries: Agents in a GroupChat share context freely — a compromised agent poisons the entire conversation
• Credential sharing: All agents inherit the same LLM API keys and tool credentials
• No action-level governance: There's no middleware to validate what an agent proposes before it executes

The Microsoft team acknowledges: "AutoGen does not currently support fine-grained access control for agents within a conversation."

Exogram adds per-agent namespace isolation and deterministic action validation to AutoGen workflows. Each agent operates within scoped permissions. Every tool call passes through the 0.07ms policy engine before execution. AutoGen orchestrates. Exogram governs.