Your Newest Platform User Is An AI Agent - Build It A Golden Path
Platform Engineering, Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
AI agents are now first-class users of internal developer platforms and need golden paths, governance, and credentials.
AI agents have become first-class consumers of the internal developer platform, changing platform teams' jobs more than any tool since Kubernetes.
The IDP shifts from a human portal to a control plane agents consume programmatically via curated, scoped tools and the Model Context Protocol.
Agents should follow the same compliant golden paths and Terraform modules as humans.
Each agent needs identity, scoped credentials, RBAC, quotas, and runtime policy enforcement.
Only about a fifth of organizations have mature agent governance despite production use.