AI Agents Need Identities, Not Just Permissions
No Jitter, Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Enterprises should give each AI agent a persistent identity record covering its purpose, human owner, delegated permissions and expiry.
Agents can now make decisions, invoke tools and APIs, and run task sequences with little oversight, which traditional IAM was not designed to govern, so the article recommends an enterprise-grade identity record for every agent.
It should include the approved business purpose, creation and approval dates, a unique persistent identity, a human owner tied to a business role, the systems and tools the agent can use, who delegated which permissions, any limits on autonomy, and conditions for review or expiration.
This documents the business authority behind an agent's actions, not just its access rights.