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: Created a user account. Created 2 agents associated with that user. Deleted the user account. Verified that the agents no longer had a valid owner. 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 What criteria does Agent 365 use to classify an agent as "without owner"? Is a blank Owner field expected to contribute to the "Agents without owners" metric? Are Microsoft Foundry agents excluded from ownerless-agent detection? Should agents whose creators have been deleted be automatically classified as ownerless? 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.
