AI Agents Inventory and Attributes - Ownership and Stakeholder attributes for the AI Agents Inventory
AI Agents Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 12. Ownership and Stakeholder attributes for the AI Agents Inventory
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Accountable owner | The named individual answerable for the agent’s behavior and governance, not a committee. |
| Stop Authority | The named person or role with the standing right to halt, pause, or roll back the agent in production. |
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Question: What ownership does an AI agent need that an application does not?
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Ownership and stakeholder attributes assign accountability for each agent — including who owns it, who supports it, and who can stop it.
| Attribute Name | Maturity | Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Business Owner | Crawl | Description — The individual or function accountable for the agent’s purpose, value, and business outcomes. Benefit(s) — Establishes business accountability and a decision-maker for the agent’s continued operation. Source — Manual. Notes — Resolve to a Person Semantic ID as the People and Personnel Inventory matures. |
| Technical Owner | Crawl | Description — The individual or team accountable for the agent’s configuration, operation, and maintenance. Benefit(s) — Gives operations and security a named contact for changes, incidents, and reviews. Source — Manual. |
| Accountable Individual | Crawl | Description — The single named person ultimately answerable for the agent’s conduct — the point of accountability for regulators and auditors. Benefit(s) — Prevents the diffused accountability that leaves autonomous agents effectively unowned. Source — Manual. Notes — Required for external-facing and higher-autonomy agents. |
Subject Matter Expert(s) [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — People with deep knowledge of the agent’s domain, behavior, or implementation. Benefit(s) — Speeds triage, review, and improvement; supports Catalog knowledge exploration. Source — Manual. Examples — Jane Doe; John Smith |
| Stop Authority | Crawl | Description — The named person or role with the standing authority to halt, pause, or roll back the agent in production. Benefit(s) — Makes the operational test of real governance explicit — someone can stop the agent, and everyone knows who. Source — Manual. Notes — Paired with the kill-switch mechanism in Autonomy and Behavioral Controls. |
| Escalation Path | Walk | Description — Where the agent escalates, and to whom, when it hits a boundary or a case it should not handle autonomously. Benefit(s) — Ensures human judgment is reachable at the moments that matter. Source — Manual. |
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