Agent Registry

As agents spread across SaaS platforms, developer tools, and custom applications, many organizations cannot say how many they run or who is responsible for them. A registry answers those questions and anchors every other control.

A useful agent registry records:

• Identity: A unique, verifiable identifier for each agent.
• Ownership: The accountable business and technical owners.
• Purpose and mission: What the agent is approved to do.
• Capabilities: Connected tools, MCP servers, models, and data sources.
• Lifecycle state: Whether the agent is in development, approved, suspended, or retired.

Registries are only valuable if they stay current. Pairing registration with automated discovery catches shadow agents that teams deploy without going through formal processes.

Regulators and auditors increasingly expect organizations to inventory AI systems, and an agent registry provides the evidence that agents are known, owned, and governed.

How PointGuard AI Helps

PointGuard AI Agent Mission Control maintains a live registry of agents with identity, ownership, missions, and permissions, and AI Discovery finds agents and MCP servers that were never registered. Together they keep the inventory complete and enforceable.

Learn More

• NIST AI Risk Management Framework
• OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications
• ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System