AI Agents Inventory and Attributes

The attribute categories presented above represent the IF4IT’s suggested baseline for governing the AI Agents Inventory. They are designed to cover the attribute dimensions that matter to almost every enterprise — but they are not exhaustive, and they are not mandatory. Every enterprise operates within a unique context, governed by its own regulatory environment, organizational structure, industry dynamics, and strategic priorities.

This document extends the standard baseline with two custom categories — Assurance and Attestation, and Autonomy and Behavioral Controls — because autonomous, model-driven agents require governance dimensions that a general attribute baseline does not provide: a defensible record that an agent was attested fit to operate, and an explicit definition of the limits on its autonomous behavior. Both follow the same structural pattern as every other category and are placed before the Relationship Attributes category, which always remains last.

Organizations building or adapting this inventory are explicitly encouraged to define additional attribute categories beyond those presented here — as many as their context requires. The only structural constraint is that any custom category should follow the same pattern: a named subsection, a single chapter with an introductory sentence, and an attribute table using the standard three-column format, inserted before the Relationship Attributes category. If a custom category proves broadly applicable across many Noun Types, we encourage practitioners to share it with the IF4IT community so it can be considered for inclusion in a future version of the standard baseline.