The Seven Components Every Enterprise AI Agent Needs (And Three Production Gaps Most Deployments Miss)

Enterprise AI Agents Need Identity, Boundaries, and Accountability Before Intelligence

Picture a procurement agent at work.

It receives a request to route a vendor contract for approval, checks the vendor’s compliance history, compares the spend threshold against policy, and writes the approval decision back to the ERP.

Four actions. Twelve seconds. No human in the loop.

Now ask: whose identity did it use to query the vendor database? Did it…