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Keel Registry · Phase 2 · Visibility

Find, own and retire every agent and workload.

Keel Registry is the system of record for every AI agent and workload: what exists, who owns it, what it can reach and where it is in its lifecycle. It discovers agents nobody declared and keeps the inventory current.

Every agent and ownerShadow agent discoveryTool and data mapLifecycle and retirement
Why it wins

Why Keel Registry

You cannot govern what you cannot see. Registry is the inventory that Governance enforces against and Intelligence monitors, tied directly to KeelAuth identities, so registration and access are the same act.

Keel Registry at a glance
Who it's for
CISOs and AI platform teams that need control over a growing agent estate, often driven by audit or AI-regulation requirements.
Build phase
Phase 2 · Visibility. See the roadmap
First release scope
Planned first release: discovery from KeelAuth token logs, two cloud accounts and one SaaS agent platform; MCP server inventory; dependency graph; owner and lifecycle states; inventory export.
Problems it solves

What changes with Keel

Shadow agents

Today · Teams launch agents in SaaS tools, scripts and frameworks with no central record.

With Keel · Discovery across clouds, SaaS, code repositories and identity logs.

No ownership

Today · Agents outlive the people and projects that created them.

With Keel · Every agent has a named owner and a review date.

Unknown blast radius

Today · No one knows which tools, data and MCP servers an agent can touch.

With Keel · A dependency graph from agent to tools, sources, secrets and other agents.

No lifecycle

Today · Agents are never retired and credentials stay live.

With Keel · States from proposed to retired, with retirement revoking access.

Audit and regulation

Today · Auditors and AI regulations ask for an inventory of AI systems and their risk level.

With Keel · Exportable inventory with classification and risk tier.

Capabilities

What Keel Registry does

Inventory

  • Agent and workload records: purpose, owner, team, model, framework, environment, risk tier, data classes
  • Registration through API, SDK, CI/CD and a self-service portal
  • Classification by autonomy level (assistive, supervised, autonomous) and data sensitivity

Discovery

  • Scans cloud accounts, agent frameworks, SaaS platforms with built-in agents and identity logs
  • Flags unregistered agents, unknown MCP servers and orphaned credentials

Mapping

  • Dependency graph: agent to tools, MCP servers, context sources, secrets, other agents and models
  • Declared versus observed access, with drift highlighted

Lifecycle

  • States: proposed, approved, active, suspended, retired
  • Owner attestation on a schedule; unattested agents suspended automatically
  • Retirement revokes identities and credentials in KeelAuth and KeelKey
Part of the platform

How it works with the rest of Keel

Each Keel product feeds the others. The delegation chain and the audit trail only work when the same system issues the identity, makes the decision and records the result.

KeelAuthOnly registered agents receive identities and tokens. Registry is the gate.
KeelKeyMaps secrets and keys to the agents that use them. Retirement triggers credential revocation.
Keel GovernancePolicies and approvals reference Registry attributes such as risk tier, owner and data classes.
Keel IntelligenceObserved behavior updates the Registry's observed-access map and drift flags.
Open standards

Built on standards you can evaluate

Nothing proprietary to adopt. These are the specifications the design is based on.

MCP server and tool discoveryA2A agent cardsSPIFFE workload IDsOpenTelemetryDesigned to map to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and EU AI Act inventory requirements

Put your first agent under control.

Join the design partner program: 90 days from federating your identity provider to a governed agent in production planning, with a named Keel engineer.