The Enterprise Guide to Agent Discovery & Governance

A comprehensive framework for discovering, governing, and improving AI agents at scale. Built from our work with Fortune 500 enterprises deploying production-grade agents across financial services, customer operations, and data platforms.

Seven Sections. One Framework.

01

The Agent Explosion is Here

Why autonomous agents are different, and why every enterprise needs an ADG strategy now.

02

Why Traditional Oversight Falls Short

Why CMDBs, SOC monitoring, and audit logs were built for a deterministic world that agents have broken.

03

The Shadow Agent Crisis

The three vectors through which agents are entering enterprises faster than central teams can track them.

04

Building Your Agent Discovery Strategy

Four discovery techniques: telemetry, MCP server monitoring, network analysis, and cloud APIs.

05

The Three Pillars of Agent Governance

Unified policy framework, agnostic governance, and customizable use-case-specific policies.

06

The Governance Stack in Detail

Real-time guardrails, continuous evaluations, access management, and monitoring requirements.

07

How Arthur Powers ADG at Scale

How the Arthur platform delivers end-to-end Agent Discovery & Governance for Fortune 500 enterprises.

Key Insights

Security and risk are the #1 barrier to scaling AI agents in the enterprise.

Insight 1

Shadow agents arrive through three vectors

Internal application development, new third-party solutions, and routine software updates that add agentic capabilities to systems that were previously deterministic.

Insight 2

Discovery alone isn't enough

Multilayered, automated detection (telemetry, MCP, network, cloud APIs) is the foundation. Triage, ownership, and policy enforcement are what turn discovery into governance.

Insight 3

One-size-fits-all governance fails

A customer support agent for an airline has fundamentally different governance requirements than an inventory agent for a warehouse. Policies must adapt to context.

Built for the teams scaling agentic AI

If you're responsible for AI strategy, governance, risk, or platform engineering at an enterprise deploying production agents, this whitepaper is for you.

Chief AI Officer
Head of AI / ML
CTO / CIO
CISO
Head of AI Governance
Model Risk Management
AI Platform Engineering
Compliance & Audit

About Arthur

The first comprehensive Agent Discovery & Governance platform.

Arthur built the industry's first comprehensive ADG platform, purpose-designed to address the challenges in this whitepaper. The platform automatically discovers agents across cloud environments, applies unified governance policies, and continuously evaluates agent performance against your standards.

Arthur is agnostic across frameworks (LangChain, Crew AI, Vertex AI, Bedrock, Agent Foundry), clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure), and models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-source). Available on the Google Cloud Marketplace and AWS Marketplace.

Ready to build your ADG strategy?

Download the whitepaper for the full framework, or talk to our team about how Arthur can bring visibility and governance to your agentic ecosystem.