Shadow agents: How IT leaders must govern ‘headless’ AI before it breaks the enterprise

Earlier this year, I was running my own local AI agent, a system I built called LaptopAI-Agent, which uses a LangGraph reasoning loop, a local Ollama model and a set of tools that can read files, query my git repositories and monitor system processes, all running entirely on my laptop with no cloud calls. I had given it a broad task and walked away. When I came back, it had completed the work.