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Michael Rishi Forrester

Agentic Covenants

Agentic Inventory Matrix

What agents exist, what they touch, what threats they face?

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All 15Self-declaredOperator-declaredDiscoveredIdentityAuthorizationBlast radiusApproval gatingSupply chain

Layers, by what they can actually enforce

  • Self-declared — advisory

    The agent reports itself. It can be wrong, stale, or absent entirely.

  • Operator-declared — deterministic-when-invoked

    The operator registered it. Accurate only as far as the operator knows.

  • Discovered — deterministic-and-external

    Found independently by scanning the target. Trusts neither of the above.

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  • Identity at Self-declared

    Agent registers on startup with name, charter ref, owner email, instance ID. Heartbeats. Deregister on shutdown. Dead-mans-switch alerts on heartbeat lapse.

  • Identity at Operator-declared

    Operator-maintained registry; agents.yaml in GitOps; ServiceNow CMDB; internal AI inventory tool. Owner-confirmed. Updated on charter signature.

  • Identity at Discovered

    CloudTrail / GCP Audit Logs of SA and IAM principal usage. K8s controller watching SA+RoleBinding by naming pattern. Reverse-lookup from credential fingerprints in Sentinels.