Agent sprawl: How to manage agent proliferation in the enterprise

The growth of enterprise AI agent platforms has made it much easier for employees to build and deploy agents to support their own work.

But as agent creation becomes more decentralized, enterprises face a new management problem: how to keep track of what agents have been built across the organization.

Without that visibility, teams can struggle to find and reuse existing agents, while access to enterprise data and systems can become harder to govern.

When this proliferation of agents becomes too difficult to manage, it becomes agent sprawl.

In this article, we’ll explain why proliferation isn’t inherently bad, explore how enterprises tend to manage agent sprawl, and consider an alternative approach that allows variant agents to compete.

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Why agent proliferation isn’t necessarily a bad thing The same tools that create the potential for agent sprawl also make experimentation much easier.

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