Hardware, infrastructure & tooling
Agent registry
Definition
A searchable catalog that records which AI agents exist, who owns them, what they can do, and where they are in their life cycle.
Visual example
Kitchen roster = agent registry
The kitchen connection
Think of a kitchen roster listing each robot cook, its manager, approved station, and shift status.
The illustration connects the AI idea to something familiar. Follow the subject, the action, and the result to see how it works.
- 01 · Who or what
- Kitchen roster = agent registry
- 02 · What happens
- Lists each robot and its role
- 03 · The result
- Shows who is active and managed
Why it matters
Teams cannot reliably find, reuse, secure, or retire agents without a shared inventory. Listing an agent does not authorize its actions.