When AI Agents Need a Registry, They’ve Stopped Being a Demo
One useful sign that AI agents are leaving the demo phase is that vendors are quietly building the boring paperwork around them. Google keeps improving the model layer with releases like Gemini 2.5 Flash and its hybrid reasoning pitch, but Microsoft’s recent agent registry and agent-to-agent management docs point to the more practical shift: companies are starting to assume these things will need names, owners, inventories, and boundaries. That is not glamorous. It is also the part that usually determines whether a technology survives contact with a real organization. Once an agent can call tools, hit endpoints, and trigger work across teams, the problem stops being “is the model impressive?” and becomes “who approved this thing, what can it touch, and how many near-duplicates are already roaming around the environment?” That is why registries, catalogs, and governance layers matter more than another round of benchmark chest-thumping. If 2025 was the year companies experimented with au...