The deadline moved, the tooling did not
A registry shipped because most firms cannot list their own agents, an identity a runtime verifies rather than one an agent reads, and a deadline that moved sixteen months.
How we organise
Google makes agent identity and a runtime generally available
Every agent gets a unique cryptographic identity, with least privilege enforced on its permissions and non-repudiable auditing of what it does. An agent can now run continuously for up to seven days. A registry holds one list of every agent, server and connection.
We tell a client that the list matters more here than the identity type, and that Google shipped it because most firms cannot produce one. Seven days outlives the session that started the agent, the ticket that justified it and often the person who approved it.
How we build
LangChain puts an identity model into its agent runtime
Threads are scoped by end-user identity, so one deployment keeps its users apart. The stated purpose is that an agent gets a trusted way to know who triggered the run without relying on prompt text. Memory belongs to the agent and survives redeployment. The beta runs in one region.
Our position is that where an agent learns whose behalf it acts on from words in its context, anyone who can write into that context can change the answer. So can a document the agent reads while running. Moving it into a verified claim costs nothing now and is expensive to retrofit.
How we assure
The AI Act’s high-risk deadlines move to December 2027
The Act reached general applicability on 2 August. Five days before that, an omnibus moved the deadlines for high-risk systems in the sensitive areas it lists, which cover biometrics, critical infrastructure, education, employment and border control.
We judge this as budget rather than reprieve. The deadline that would have forced an audit trail onto agents deciding about people moved by roughly sixteen months, and both vendors above shipped the audit trail anyway. Work scheduled only against the deadline is now scheduled against nothing.