Operationalizing the Agentic Control Plane: Integrating the AARM Specification

The CSA Agentic Control Plane (ACP) defines the governance framework through which AI agents are orchestrated, monitored, and controlled across a ten-layer reference architecture, but this paper focuses specifically on how the Autonomous Action Runtime Management (AARM) specification fulfills the ACP's runtime enforcement capability. AARM is an open system specification comprising seven components — Action Mediation, Context Accumulation, Policy Engine, Approval Service, Deferral Service, Receipt Generation, and Telemetry Export — that together intercept, evaluate, enforce, and audit agent actions prior to execution. By mapping each AARM component to its corresponding ACP function, architecture layer, and AICM control domain, the paper demonstrates that AARM serves as the concrete, implementable runtime enforcement core of the ACP, completing a layered governance model in which the CSA reference architecture supplies the structural framework, the ACP supplies the governance vision, and AARM makes that vision operational.