Agentic AI techniques—AI techniques that may pursue complicated targets with restricted direct supervision—are prone to be broadly helpful if we will combine them responsibly into our society. Whereas such techniques have substantial potential to assist individuals extra effectively and successfully obtain their very own targets, in addition they create dangers of hurt. On this white paper, we advise a definition of agentic AI techniques and the events within the agentic AI system life-cycle, and spotlight the significance of agreeing on a set of baseline obligations and security finest practices for every of those events. As our main contribution, we provide an preliminary set of practices for retaining brokers’ operations secure and accountable, which we hope can function constructing blocks within the growth of agreed baseline finest practices. We enumerate the questions and uncertainties round operationalizing every of those practices that should be addressed earlier than such practices could be codified. We then spotlight classes of oblique impacts from the wide-scale adoption of agentic AI techniques, that are prone to necessitate further governance frameworks.