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If you are an enterprise architect working on Microsoft Entra and AI agents, your first overdue job is not another policy wizard, another dashboard, or another governance steering committee. It is schema design. Specifically, it is deciding how you classify non-human identities with custom security attributes in Microsoft Entra . Not eventually. Up front. I keep seeing the same pattern across customers of every size: teams move quickly on agent experimentation, they onboard identities, they test controls, and then they realize they have no consistent attribute language for policy scope. At that point, every policy becomes a naming convention problem in disguise. That is backwards. The control plane starts with classification Custom security attributes are not decorative metadata. They are tenant-scoped key-value classifications you can assign to users, enterprise applications (service principals), and agent identities that are modeled as a service principal subtype, with dedicated role and permission boundaries for who can define and assign them ( overview , Graph model , agent identity service principal model ). That alone should change how architects think about them. This is not "nice to have taxonomy." This is policy input. Microsoft Entra Conditional Access for agents supports attribute-driven targeting with custom security attributes, and policy evaluation happens during token issuance and refresh, not just at policy authoring time ( Conditional Access for agents ). In other words: if your classification is sloppy, your runtime decisions are sloppy. Why agents raise the stakes You can say "an agent identity is still a service principal" and be technically correct. Microsoft Entra Agent ID is built on service principal infrastructure ( agent identities, service principals, and applications ). You can also miss the point. Agent identity introduces a blueprint-centered model where one blueprint can represent many agents, where blueprint-level policy decisions can

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Batch 010 found a bug that looked like good news. The classification worker was finishing its work. Runs moved through the database. Product rows had candidate tariff codes. The regression suite was far enough along that a casual glance could have treated the classifier as alive. Then one test forced three uncomfortable cases through the loop: no candidate, weak confidence, and a near tie. All three came back looking too clean. The worker was persisting the run as classified , even when the evidence said the product needed review or had no supportable recommendation. That is the kind of bug I worry about in compliance software. Not the loud crash. The green row. A customs classifier can fail by throwing an exception. That failure is annoying, but honest. The operator sees it. The queue stops. The job gets retried. The audit trail can say, plainly, that classification did not happen. The worse failure is a result that looks complete while the evidence underneath is missing or contested. That was the real Batch 010 scar. The engine already carried the domain rule in its intent: classification is evidence, not a label. But the persistence path was still treating classification as if the only final state that mattered was success. The runtime could produce rejected candidates and confidence values. The database could store failure reasons. The tests could express review states. One narrow path still flattened doubt into completion. I was wrong about where the risk sat. I expected the hard part to be selecting the tariff code. The harder problem sat one layer later: making sure the code was not selected when the evidence did not deserve that much authority. Customs data makes that tension obvious. A product row is rarely a clean ontology entry. It is a SKU, a commercial name, a description written by someone under time pressure, a country of origin, a jurisdiction, maybe a material list, maybe an intended use. The difference between a good HS or HTS recommendation and a