Is microsoft/semantic-kernel production-ready?

Name: microsoft/semantic-kernel agent governance score
Creator: Shadow
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Mechanical governance score from agent-contracts scan against a clean clone. No vibes, no testimonials — reproducible from the exact commit below.

100/100 A no change since the previous scan

Full governance surface. semantic-kernel scores the maximum on every measured dimension. Note: a perfect surface score does not mean agents built on it tell the truth at runtime — that failure has no surface to grep.

Dimension breakdown (100 points)

tests_and_ci — a test suite plus CI that runs it20/20

tool_governance — permission / allowlist / approval / human-in-loop gating on tool calls20/20

secret_safety — secrets git-ignored, no obvious hardcoded keys15/15

eval_harness — an eval / benchmark / labeled-corpus surface15/15

dependency_pinning — a lockfile or pinned dependency manifest10/10

observability — logging / audit / tracing10/10

resilience — retry / backoff / fallback / escalation10/10

Reproduce this score

pip install "agent-contracts @ git+https://github.com/impartshadow/agent-contracts.git"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel.git
git -C semantic-kernel checkout dfc5227227
agent-contracts scan --root semantic-kernel --json

Scored commit: dfc5227227352e7cf4b11de1d9b8e49ebc7b43ff. The score is the output of a deterministic scanner, not a judgment call — a clean clone reproduces it.

What this score can and can't tell you

This index measures observable governance surface — the guardrails a reliable agent needs. It does not certify that agents built on semantic-kernel behave correctly at runtime. The most expensive agent failure — confidently claiming a task is "done" with nothing to back it — has no surface to grep, so no static score (including this one) can see it. Here's the proof, on the #1-ranked framework.

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