"AI agents are now first-class actors in production systems, but the key managers we hand them were designed for service accounts. The audit-log gap is bigger than you think."
"You can't revoke 'the agent.' There is no agent. There's only the role. Revoking the role takes down the legitimate billing workflow for everyone."
"This isn't a hypothetical. It's the failure mode every team that has put an LLM agent on a production credential is one careless prompt away from."
"Existing key managers share a model. The model is role-centric. A request arrives carrying a credential that maps to a role. The role has a policy."
AI agents have become integral to production systems, yet existing key management systems are designed around roles, not individual agents. This creates significant audit-log gaps. For instance, an AI agent can sign multiple invoices without clear identification, leading to unauthorized transactions. Revoking roles to address issues disrupts legitimate workflows. The current key management systems, including AWS KMS and others, are not equipped to handle the complexities introduced by AI agents, resulting in security vulnerabilities and operational challenges.
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