Introducing the Credo AI Agent Registry (Public Preview): Purpose-built governance for autonomous AI systems that think, decide, and act independently
The era of basic AI chatbots is over. AI agents are here, and they're fundamentally different from the AI tools you've governed before. While traditional AI responds to prompts, agents pursue goals autonomously—accessing data, making decisions, and taking actions across your systems without constant human direction. They're like hiring a thousand new employees overnight, except these employees never sleep, can access vast amounts of data instantly, and might make decisions in ways you didn't anticipate.
For enterprises, this represents both unprecedented opportunity and novel risk. AI agents promise transformative productivity gains, but their autonomous nature introduces governance challenges that existing frameworks simply weren't designed to handle. That's why we're excited to announce the Credo AI Agent Registry—the first comprehensive governance platform purpose-built for the autonomous AI era.
The Agent Governance Gap: Why Traditional AI Governance Falls Short
Here's the fundamental challenge: traditional AI governance was built for predictable systems. Your risk models, compliance frameworks, and oversight processes assume you can anticipate what AI will do based on specific inputs. But agents don't work that way.
Agents exhibit emergent behaviors—they adapt, learn, and sometimes take unexpected actions in pursuit of their goals. They require broader system access to function effectively, creating new attack vectors and data exposure risks. They make thousands of micro-decisions without human oversight, and their failure modes can cascade across interconnected systems.
Consider these scenarios:
- The Unpredictable Agent: Your customer service agent starts offering discounts that aren't in its training data to resolve complaints, potentially costing thousands before anyone notices.
- The Over-Authorized Agent: Your coding agent accesses production databases to "help" with debugging, inadvertently exposing sensitive customer information.
- The Cascading Failure: Your supply chain optimization agent makes decisions based on outdated data, triggering a series of automated vendor contracts that create massive cost overruns.
Traditional governance tools treat these as edge cases. For agents, this is the status quo.
Introducing the Credo AI Agent Registry: Complete Visibility and Control
The Agent Registry extends our proven AI Governance Platform with capabilities specifically designed for autonomous systems:
Comprehensive Agent Inventory
Get complete visibility into every AI agent deployed across your organization—from third-party tools like coding assistants to internally developed autonomous systems. The registry captures not just what agents you have, but their capabilities, access permissions, autonomy levels, and decision-making boundaries.
Agent-Specific Risk Assessment
Traditional AI risks like bias and hallucination still matter for agents, but they're just the beginning. The Agent Registry leverages Credo AI's industry-leading governance intelligence library, enhanced with agent-specific risk scenarios:
- Unpredictable Autonomy: When agents exhibit behaviors not anticipated during development
- Cascading Failures: How agent decisions can trigger downstream problems across interconnected systems
- Self-Modification Risks: Agents that learn and adapt beyond their original parameters
- Unauthorized Access: Agents exceeding their intended permission boundaries
Real-Time Monitoring and Alerts
Get immediate notifications when agents deviate from expected behaviors, access unauthorized resources, or trigger predefined risk thresholds. You stay informed about what your autonomous systems are actually doing.
Human-in-the-Loop Integration
While agents operate autonomously, they still need appropriate human oversight. The registry facilitates configurable intervention points based on risk levels and decision criticality, ensuring that humans remain in control of the most important choices.
Built for the Enterprise Reality of AI Agents
We designed the Agent Registry for organizations that understand agents aren't just more powerful AI tools—they're a fundamentally new category requiring purpose-built governance:
- For AI Governance Teams: Get the visibility and control mechanisms you need to manage autonomous systems at scale, with pre-built policy packs aligned to emerging regulations like the EU AI Act.
- For Security Teams: Monitor agent access patterns, detect unauthorized behaviors, and enforce security boundaries across autonomous systems.
- For Compliance Teams: Capture audit trails for agent decisions, ensure regulatory alignment, and demonstrate appropriate oversight of autonomous systems.
- For Business Teams: Deploy agents with confidence, knowing that governance controls prevent them from making decisions that could damage the business or expose the organization to liability.
The Future of AI Governance is Agent-Native
As autonomous AI systems become the primary driver of AI value in enterprises, governance can't remain an afterthought. The organizations that figure out agent governance first will have a sustainable competitive advantage—they'll be able to deploy more agents, more quickly, with greater business impact.
The Agent Registry represents our vision of agent-native governance: tools designed from the ground up for autonomous systems that think, decide, and act independently. It's governance that keeps pace with AI innovation rather than slowing it down.
Key capabilities launching with the Agent Registry:
✅ Complete agent inventory across third-party and internal systems
✅ Agent-specific risk assessment with autonomous system scenarios
✅ Real-time monitoring with configurable alerts
✅ Human oversight integration with risk-based intervention points
✅ Compliance workflows aligned to emerging agent regulations
✅ Audit trails for agent decision-making and behavior patterns
Ready to Govern the Agent Era?
The Agent Registry is available for Public Preview as part of the Credo AI Governance Platform, with seamless integration to our existing AI Registry and Vendor Registry capabilities. Organizations can leverage pre-built agent governance policies or create custom frameworks tailored to their specific use cases and risk tolerance.
Trust the agents you deploy. Automate oversight. Accelerate adoption.
Schedule a demo to see how the Agent Registry can help your organization govern autonomous AI with confidence.
DISCLAIMER. The information we provide here is for informational purposes only and is not intended in any way to represent legal advice or a legal opinion that you can rely on. It is your sole responsibility to consult an attorney to resolve any legal issues related to this information.
