#agent-sprawl

#agent-sprawl

Suddenly, Claude was kicking off four, five, six, seven, even eight agents at once. I had no visibility into what they were all doing. I didn't even have a way to stop them if one or more ran amok. And run amok they sure did. One got stuck trying to access a file for which it didn't have root privileges. Another went in and attempted to refactor an entire app (which I did not request).

Salesforce-owned integration platform provider MuleSoft has added a new feature called Agent Scanners to Agent Fabric - a suite of capabilities and tools that the company launched last year to rein in the growing challenge of agent sprawl across enterprises. Agent sprawl, often a result of enterprises and their technology teams adopting multiple agentic products, can lead to the fragmentation of agents, turning their workflows redundant or siloed across teams and platforms.