AI Agents Inventory and Attributes

The relationship is one of constraint: an AI agent is bound by laws, regulations, and directives governed in the Regulations Inventory, which is authoritative for them and covers laws, regulations, and directives alike. It is also the gateway to the Regulatory Obligations and Regulatory Agencies relationships. The Regulations 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 Related Regulations in the Governance category, its Applicable Regulatory Frameworks in the Compliance and Regulatory category, and its Regulatory Risk Tier in the Risk category.

Maintaining this relationship is what makes an agent’s regulatory position governable: which agents are subject to which rules, whether each complies, and which carry the highest regulatory risk — the foundation for conformity assessment and for governing regulated, consequential speech.