Term · 27. Emerging Categories 2024-2026
AI Agent Lifecycle Management
Definition
Discipline of provisioning, monitoring, updating, and decommissioning AI agents as first-class enterprise identities. Mirrors human JML (Joiner-Mover-Leaver) and NHI lifecycle but with agent-specific concerns: model version pinning, capability scoping, behavioral baselines, anomaly detection on agent actions, and explicit delegation chains.
- Synonyms
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- Agentic AI Lifecycle
- AI Agent JML
- AI Agent Governance Lifecycle
- Application
- Regulatory: Gartner Magic Quadrant / Hype Cycle · KuppingerCole Leadership Compass · OWASP NHI Top 10 (2025) / SAMM
- Standards & regulations
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- Gartner
- KC
- OWASP
- Sources
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- Microsoft Security — Identity & Access primary source
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