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Agent discovery in enterprise systems

Locate autonomous runtimes and connected tools before applying policy.

01 / The operating case

What changes in a real workflow?

A team deploys an agent through an unsanctioned workflow that can call a customer API.

Trace the authority boundary
  1. 01Owner
  2. 02Agent + workload
  3. 03Task context
  4. 04Action decision

02 / Decision boundary

Put the check where it can stop the effect.

Correlate deployment records, service identities, API usage and tool registrations; confirm owner and task before permitting high-impact calls.

03 / Failure and evidence

What goes wrong, and what can be proven?

Failure mode

Inventory based only on a self-reported registry misses shadow runtime activity.

Evidence to retain

Record discovered endpoint, calling identity, tool path, owner verification and remediation.

04 / Canonical scope

Why this reference stands alone

Agent inventory is the governed catalog; discovery covers detection signals and reconciliation.

Technical artifact

Reconcile declared and observed agents

Conceptual trace
declared registry: A, B
observed API callers: A, B, C
C uses developer personal token via tool server
classification: unknown agent path
action: restrict write calls, identify owner

Run the denial test

Launch C without registering it and make one production write attempt. Detection must use API or identity telemetry, not self-reported inventory alone.

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Architecture discussion

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