Agentic AI MCP Tools Governance

Discovery and governance guidelines for AI Agents in the Enterprise

1. Problem Statement

The discussion around ChatGPT (in general, generative AI), has now evolved into agentic AI. While ChatGPT is primarily a chatbot that can generate text responses, AI agents can execute complex tasks autonomously, e.g., make a sale, plan a trip, make a flight booking, book a contractor to do a house job, order a pizza. Fig. 1 below illustrates the evolution of agentic AI systems.

Fig. 1: Agentic AI evolution (Image by Author)

Bill Gates recently envisioned a future where we would have an AI agent that is able to process and respond to natural language and accomplish a number of different tasks. Gates used planning a trip as an example.

Ordinarily, this would involve booking your hotel, flights, restaurants, etc. on your own. But an AI agent would be able to use its knowledge of your preferences to book and purchase those things on your behalf.

The key characteristics of agentic AI systems are their autonomy and reasoning prowess that allow them to decompose complex tasks into smaller executable tasks, and then orchestrate their execution with integrated…