Non-human identities in the directory of record.
Entra Agent ID extends Microsoft's directory to agents, so a non-human identity is issued, scoped, and reviewed in the same place as a person rather than as a service principal nobody tracks. Our work is agent identity in the directory of record, with scope, ownership, and review.
Entra Agent ID gives agents an identity in the same directory that already holds your people. Where Entra is authoritative, that makes the lifecycle question answerable today.
What it is
Entra Agent ID extends Microsoft's directory to agents, so a non-human identity is issued, scoped, and reviewed in the same place as a person rather than as a service principal nobody tracks.
It is for organizations where Entra is already the directory of record and agents are arriving through Microsoft tooling, which is a common combination and a fortunate one.
What it does
Agents in the same directory as people
One place to enumerate, one review to run, one lifecycle to enforce.
Scope granted rather than inherited
An agent gets permissions deliberately, instead of assuming those of whoever created it.
Where it fits
L1, identity and access, governing L4. Its advantage is proximity: the agent identity lives in the directory that already answers for people, so a single access review can cover both populations rather than two processes that never quite reconcile.
What we do with it
Extending the identity model to agents
Designing issuance, scope, ownership, and retirement for non-human identities alongside the human model.
Connecting it to the Atlassian estate
Agents acting inside Atlassian resolving through the same directory rather than a second list.
Policy and evidence
What an agent may do, and what record proves it, agreed before anything is switched on.
Where it earns its place
A Microsoft-centred estate adopting agents
The directory is already authoritative, which makes this the cheapest available path to a real lifecycle.
An organization with service principals nobody owns
Agents in the directory are enumerable. Service principals accumulated over a decade are not.
Proof
Of security leaders say they lack full visibility into the machine identities already running in their environment.
2026 CISO AI Risk Report, 235 large-enterprise leaders.
AI Innovator Finalist, 2026
Atlassian Partner Awards, 2026