statements ยท statement-BATCH-2026-004-012
person-amy-shillinglaw
Shillinglaw defines AI agents as mostly autonomous systems that make decisions, solve complex problems, launch subtasks, and invoke external tools such as APIs, functions, scripts, service accounts, or other engines.
Statement context
- Statement type
- definition
- Exact source locator
- 00:08:27
- Source date
- 2025-11-20
- Role at source time
- Technical Advocate
- Evidence character
- vendor presenter definition
- Scope
- Functional characteristics of tool-using AI agents.
Recorded uncertainty: Not all systems marketed as agents have every listed capability.
Indexed source: Governing AI agents with Agent Identity Security
Evidence lineage and transparency
| Relationship field | Linked identifiers |
|---|---|
| topic ids | topic-ai-agents, topic-enterprise-infrastructure |
Machine review: ready for human review. Human review: approved. Workflow: published.
Complete structured record
- statement id
- statement-BATCH-2026-004-012
- source id
- source-sailpoint-governing-ai-agents-2025
- person id
- person-amy-shillinglaw
- institutional author
- SailPoint Technologies
- book edition id
- Unknown
- speaker role at source time
- Technical Advocate
- organization at source time
- SailPoint Technologies
- statement type
- definition
- neutral paraphrase
- Shillinglaw defines AI agents as mostly autonomous systems that make decisions, solve complex problems, launch subtasks, and invoke external tools such as APIs, functions, scripts, service accounts, or other engines.
- direct quote
- Unknown
- direct quote rights note
- Unknown
- exact locator
- 00:08:27
- locator type
- timestamp
- source date
- 2025-11-20
- topic ids
- topic-ai-agents, topic-enterprise-infrastructure
- executive role context
- role-ciso, role-cio, role-cto
- industry context
- cross-industry enterprise
- geographic context
- geo-global
- evidence character
- vendor_presenter_definition
- factual verification status
- conceptual_not_empirical
- statement scope
- Functional characteristics of tool-using AI agents.
- uncertainty
- Not all systems marketed as agents have every listed capability.
- extraction method
- speaker_labeled_platform_caption_review_checked_against_video
- machine extraction confidence
- 0.99
- independent agent review status
- not_reviewed
- publication status
- published
- workflow status
- published
- machine review status
- ready_for_human_review
- human review status
- approved
- reviewed by
- Murray Newlands
- reviewed at
- 2026-08-16T23:17:22Z
Provenance and revision history
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"source_url": "https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/governing-ai-agents-with-agent-identity-security/188944",
"accessed_at": "2026-08-15",
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"batch_id": "BATCH-2026-004",
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"notes": null
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"revision_history": [
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"changed_at": "2026-08-16T23:17:22Z",
"changed_by": "Murray Newlands",
"summary": "Approved for the governed-identities pilot release under the exact scope, exclusions, rights treatment, and limitations recorded in issue #18.",
"batch_id": "BATCH-2026-004"
}
]
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