Agent Sprawl: How to Manage Agent Proliferation in the Enterprise
Cohere, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
Cohere explains agent sprawl in enterprises and proposes letting variant agents compete instead of restricting them.
As enterprise agent platforms make it easy for employees to build agents, organizations struggle to track what has been built, reuse existing agents and govern access to data and systems, an unmanageable result Cohere calls agent sprawl.
The post argues proliferation is not inherently bad, reviews how enterprises typically manage it, and proposes an alternative that lets variant agents compete.
It points to Cohere's North 2 platform for building and sharing reusable agents.