You have built agents. They are in production. Some of them are doing important work. You are mostly sure of that.
What you are less sure of: how many agents you actually have running. Where they live on the network. Which ones are still doing their jobs and which ones drifted out of scope months ago. Who they are talking to when they reach out to other systems. Whether the audit trail you would need if a regulator came asking actually exists in a form somebody could read.
This is the quiet state of most enterprise agent deployments today. You shipped the agents. The platform team built the orchestration. Engineering wired up the integrations. And then everybody moved on, because the deployments worked well enough that the operational gaps were easy to ignore.
The gaps are getting harder to ignore. Compliance teams are starting to ask questions. Risk officers are starting to ask questions. Auditors are starting to ask questions. The agents you deployed two quarters ago are now doing work that touches customers, money, and regulated data, and the answers you have when somebody asks “what is this agent and what is it allowed to do” are answers you assembled in the moment from logs scattered across half a dozen systems.
