Agent Governance Register

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Agent sponsor

In short: An agent sponsor is Microsoft's term for the person responsible for an agent identity in Entra Agent ID. The sponsor role works much like an accountable owner. It is someone who can vouch for the agent, review its access and act when the agent is no longer needed.

Which controls use this term?

  • GOV-02Named accountable owner. Assign every agent a named person who answers for what it does, and record that owner in the inventory.

Which terms are related?

Agent governance, Accountable owner, AI RMF.

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