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Glossary: SCIM for AI agents
Every field and resource in the IETF drafts that extend SCIM to AI agents, explained in plain English with examples. Definitions follow the draft texts and name the draft they come from.
TermAgent resourceThe Agent resource is a proposed SCIM resource type that represents an AI agent's identity in a service. It lives at /Agents....Termactiveactive is a required boolean on the Agent resource. Setting it to false tells the service to treat the agent as inactive....TermdisplayNamedisplayName is the human-readable name of the agent, meant to be shown to end users. It is required....TermagentUserNameagentUserName is the unique identifier of an agent inside a provisioning domain, similar to a user's userName or email address....Termownersowners lists the responsible parties for an agent. It is optional and multi-valued....TermlifecycleStatelifecycleState is a complex attribute from the governance extension. It replaces a simple on/off flag with five states and strict rules for ...TermautonomyLevelautonomyLevel records how much human oversight an agent works under. It is information, not a permission....TermvalidFrom and validTovalidFrom and validTo bound the period in which an agent is meant to operate. Think of the notBefore and notAfter fields of a certificate....TermcredentialDiscoveryUricredentialDiscoveryUri points to a document that describes how an agent can bind credentials. The SCIM record itself carries no keys or cert...TermAgenticApplicationAgenticApplication was a proposed SCIM resource for an application that hosts or provides access to agents. It appeared in the October 2025 ...TermoAuthClientIdentifiersoAuthClientIdentifiers was an attribute in an early agent draft. It tied the SCIM record of an agent to the OAuth client the agent uses to a...
See also the draft tracker for a side-by-side comparison of the drafts, and the blog for longer guides.
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