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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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  • Supply chain at Self-declared

    Agent reports current dependency manifest on registration: foundation model + version, MCP server names + hashes, base image SHA, lockfile fingerprint. Updates on change.

  • Supply chain at Operator-declared

    Operator records authorized-dependency manifest from agent charter. Linked to Covenants L2-C5 and L3-C5 allowlists. Version-controlled audit trail.

  • Supply chain at Discovered

    Image-registry pull events, package-manager logs, runtime introspection of loaded models and connected MCP servers, SBOM scanning. Drift between actual and authorized = alert.