Note: Features are in Preview and may change.
As organizations lean into AI assistants and autonomous workflows, one challenge keeps coming up in every SOC and IAM conversation: agent sprawl. Agents show up in multiple teams and builder platforms, and before you know it, you’ve got non‑human actors touching sensitive data without a clear inventory, lifecycle, or policy boundary.
Microsoft Entra Agent ID and the Agent Registry (Preview) are designed to solve exactly that bringing identities, governance, and Zero Trust controls to AI agents, so you can securely discover, organize, and manage them easily in your directory.
What Agent Registry Adds (and Why You’ll Care)
Agent Registry is an Microsoft Entra integrated metadata repository that gives you a unified view of agents built on Microsoft platforms (e.g., Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry) and those from other ecosystems. It separates operational records (Agent Instances) from discoverability metadata (Agent Card Manifests) and introduces Collections to govern which agents can discover and collaborate with each other. Think discovery before access a crucial shift for reducing exposure.
A Quick Look at the Tenant Experience
Agent ID Overview (Preview) dashboard showing agent counts, status, types, and blueprints: high-level posture of agents, identities, blueprints, and collections
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