---
title: "Agent registry"
description: "The runtime-aware inventory of every non-human actor (model, service and agent), each with an owner, a declared scope, a status and a kill switch, fed by a runtime data path rather than typed by hand."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/agent-registry
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
---

# Agent registry

The runtime-aware inventory of every non-human actor (model, service and agent), each with an owner, a declared scope, a status and a kill switch, fed by a runtime data path rather than typed by hand. It is the artefact that answers "what AI is running?".

- Developed in: [ch. 23, The agent registry](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-agents#the-agent-registry); [ch. 05, Pattern: Agent Registry](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns#pattern-agent-registry)
- Chapters: [ch. 04, The Stack](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-stack) · [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 06, The Role](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-role) · [ch. 23, AI Agents](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-agents)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-agent-registry

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.