Agent 365 Ownership Reporting Discrepancy: Home Dashboard vs Agent Registry

Hello Team,

I have observed a potential issue with the way Agent 365 identifies and reports ownerless agents.

Environment

• Microsoft 365 Admin Center
• Microsoft Foundry

Observed Behaviour

Microsoft 365 Admin Center Home Page

• Displays: "358 agents don't have owners"

This indicates that the platform has identified a significant number of agents as lacking owners.

However, within Agent 365 → All Agents → Registry:

• Total agents: 372
• Agents without owners: 0
• Unmanaged agents: 2

The ownership-related metrics do not appear to align.

Example Agent

The tenant currently contains agents that appear to have no owner assigned.

For example, the agent in the screenshot, FORGE, shows:

• Publisher Type: Your org
• Publisher: R Pandit
• Owner: —
• Created By: —

The Owner field is blank within the agent inventory/details experience.

However:

• Agent Registry reports Agents without owners = 0
• The ownerless agent count does not appear to increase despite agents displaying a blank Owner field.

Additional Testing Performed

To validate the behaviour, I previously performed the following test:

1. Created a user account.
2. Created 2 agents associated with that user.
3. Deleted the user account.
4. Verified that the agents no longer had a valid owner.
5. Checked Agent 365 ownership reporting.

Expected result:

• The agents should be classified as ownerless.
• The "Agents without owners" counter should increase accordingly.

Actual result:

• The "Agents without owners" counter remained 0.

Questions

1. What criteria does Agent 365 use to classify an agent as "without owner"?
2. Is a blank Owner field expected to contribute to the "Agents without owners" metric?
3. Are Microsoft Foundry agents excluded from ownerless-agent detection?
4. Should agents whose creators have been deleted be automatically classified as ownerless?
5. Is the current behaviour expected, or does this indicate a detection/reporting issue?

Expected Behaviour

If an agent:

• has no owner assigned,
• displays a blank Owner field, or
• is associated with a deleted creator account,

then the agent should either:

• be included in the "Agents without owners" count, or
• tool-tips/documentation should clearly explain the field definitions.

Thank you for your assistance.