DASF-71 — Log and register AI agents

Source: official compendium, Databricks AI Mitigation Controls, row 73. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 3.0.

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Intent and implementation

Logging an agent and registering it with catalog is the basis of the development and deployment process of agentica AI. The use of the Databricks AI Agent Framework, leveraging MLflow, to log and register all AI agents. Logging is the foundational step, capturing a specific "point in time" version of the agent's code, configuration, and Python environment to ensure traceability and evaluation quality. The standard logging mechanism is MLflow Models from Code, which ensures the agent is packaged reliably for deployment. Key requirements during logging include:

1. Model Signature: Defining the MLflow Model Signature to validate agent inputs and outputs, ensuring correct interaction with tools and other downstream applications.
2. Resource Declaration: Explicitly declaring all external Databricks-managed resources (e.g., Vector Search indices, Foundation Model Serving Endpoints) that the agent requires for execution. Following successful logging, the agent must be registered to Unity Catalog (UC). This registration packages the agent as a model within UC, enabling the use of Unity Catalog permissions for authorization over the agent and its associated resources.

Source metadata

• Category: Platform and System Security
• System component: Agentic AI
• Databricks responsibility: Databricks — Implementation
• Product reference: Customer configured, Databricks enforced
• Feature/control: Feature
• Security Analysis Tool reference: Out of the box
• Novelty: Novel AI Control/Capability

Databricks responsibility labels do not establish who enforces this control on another platform. Name a local owner and verify it.

Implementation references

• AWS documentation
• AZURE documentation
• GCP documentation

Risks linked by the risk table

• DASF-R-13.1
• DASF-R-13.2
• DASF-R-13.3
• DASF-R-13.6
• DASF-R-13.7
• DASF-R-13.8
• DASF-R-13.9
• DASF-R-13.11
• DASF-R-13.12
• DASF-R-13.13
• DASF-R-13.14
• DASF-R-13.15
• DASF-R-13.17
• DASF-R-13.19

The control table separately reports: DASF-R-13.1, DASF-R-13.2, DASF-R-13.3, DASF-R-13.6, DASF-R-13.7, DASF-R-13.8, DASF-R-13.9, DASF-R-13.11, DASF-R-13.12, DASF-R-13.13, DASF-R-13.14, DASF-R-13.15, DASF-R-13.17, DASF-R-13.19. See source issues for differences.

Verification

Project adaptation: get_control returns a concrete evidence request, a proposed test, and an acceptance condition. A control description or product feature is not evidence of deployment or effectiveness.

Source-reported framework mappings

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Related

• Methodology
• Catalog