AI Agents Inventory and Attributes - Understand the relationship between the AI Agents Inventory and the People and Personnel Inventory
AI Agents Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 39. Understand the relationship between the AI Agents Inventory and the People and Personnel Inventory
Executive Summary: Chapter Overview
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Accountability edges | Owner, accountable individual, stop authority, and attesting authority all resolve to governed people. |
| No orphan agents | Every agent traces to named, real accountability — the antidote to the shadow agent. |
Quick Q&A
Question: Who is accountable for an autonomous agent?
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The relationship is a cross-reference to accountable people: an AI agent is owned by, accountable to, stoppable by, and attested by individuals governed in the People and Personnel Inventory, which is authoritative for those people. The People and Personnel Inventory is not yet published; until it is, refer to the IF4IT Enterprise Inventory Management Best Practices document for its current definition.
The connecting attributes are the agent’s Business Owner, Technical Owner, Accountable Individual, and Stop Authority in the Ownership and Stakeholder category, and its Attesting Authority in the Assurance and Attestation category — each populated as a name at Crawl and resolved to a Person Semantic Identifier as the People and Personnel Inventory matures.
Maintaining this relationship is what turns accountability from a claim into a fact: every agent traces to named people who own it, can stop it, and vouched for it. Without it, agents drift into the shadow population — running, but owned by no one.
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