Agent Lifecycle Transitions
An agent moves through real governed transitions long after launch: who owns it, whether it earns a promotion, whether it gets demoted, and how it eventually winds down. Seven gates for making sure each one actually happened properly.
Who this pack is for
A platform engineering or governance leadership role accountable for an agent across its full operating life, not just at the moment it's built or launched, but whether it has a real accountable owner, whether that owner's approvals actually govern its operating-mode changes, and whether it eventually winds down deliberately rather than being quietly abandoned.
Agent Tiering / Inherent Risk Classification and Agent Registry with Risk Tier, Operating Mode and Revocation already cover how an agent is classified and tracked. This pack covers the transitions it moves through after that: ownership, sign-off, promotion, demotion, deprecation, and retirement.
What's in the pack
All seven gates are built so missing or unclear information blocks the result rather than quietly passing it, each tested against every possible input combination. Every worked example follows the same accounts-payable invoice-matching agent through its own real lifecycle arc, from ownership properly assigned, through a naming convention that doesn't break when its operating mode changes, a promotion earned on genuine evidence, to a deliberate deprecation and clean retirement.
Confirms a specific individual was actually nominated as owner, accepted the role, and has a documented scope of responsibility.
Confirms an agent’s name and ID encode its owning domain and purpose, not its risk tier or operating mode, so the name never has to change when those do.
Confirms a real sign-off was requested, given by the currently accountable sponsor, and obtained before a lifecycle transition took effect.
Confirms an agent actually meets the criteria for a higher operating mode, objectively verified, and approved by the authority its risk tier requires.
Confirms objective downgrade criteria were predefined, the trigger was objectively confirmed, and the downgrade was applied without undue delay.
Confirms a deprecation decision was actually documented, a real replacement or sunset path exists, and stakeholders were notified in advance.
Confirms all access is genuinely revoked, data retention obligations are met, and the accountable owner confirmed retirement complete.
Does not perform ongoing, continuous verification that an assigned owner remains current, Agent Identity Ownership & Sponsor Assignment already covers that health check. Does not decide which operating mode an agent is eligible for, the Permitted Operating Mode decision does that, and the Oversight & Autonomy Governance pack covers trials, regression and approval authority. Does not discover credentials that have already drifted into an orphaned state, Orphaned Agent Credential Detection & Decommissioning covers that separate scope.
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