AI Agents Inventory and Attributes - Understand the relationship between the AI Agents Inventory and the Applications Inventory
AI Agents Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 36. Understand the relationship between the AI Agents Inventory and the Applications Inventory
Executive Summary: Chapter Overview
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Cross-reference | Agents and applications are distinct but linked — an agent may live inside or act upon an application. |
| Portfolio completeness | An application’s blast radius includes the autonomous agents operating through it. |
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Question: Is an agent just a feature of an application?
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The relationship is a cross-reference between distinct Noun Types: an AI agent may be embedded in an application, exposed through one, or act upon one, while the Applications Inventory remains authoritative for the applications themselves. Neither seeds the other; each references the other where they meet.
The connecting attributes are the agent’s Tools and Functions Available and the application references it acts upon or is embedded in, on the AI Agents side, matched to the application records in the Applications Inventory.
Maintaining this relationship completes the picture for Application Portfolio Management: an application’s true blast radius, cost, and risk now include the autonomous agents operating through it. Without it, an application’s portfolio disposition silently omits the agents that act in its name.
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