Lifecycle is the second pillar of the Nomotic AMP. It covers everything that happens to an agent between the moment it’s registered and the moment it’s retired — and the governance framework that applies at each stage.
Zones
Every agent lives in one of three zones:
Sandbox is for agents in development and initial testing. Governance is active but thresholds are more permissive. It is a safe environment to build, test, and iterate without every experiment triggering escalations.
Staging is the middle zone. Agents in staging run under production-equivalent governance conditions. This is where you validate that an agent behaves correctly before it touches real workloads.
Production is the highest-trust zone for agents actively serving real work. Promotion to production requires governance verification — the agent must have a valid certificate and a clean behavioral record in staging.
Moving between zones
Agents move through zones as they mature. From the Lifecycle dashboard, select an agent and use the zone controls to promote or demote it. Promotion to production triggers a governance check. If the agent doesn’t meet the threshold, the promotion is blocked and the reason is explained.
Agent states
Within each zone, agents have operational states: Provisioned, Active, Inactive, Under Review, and Retired.
Active agents are processing evaluations. Inactive agents are registered but not running. Under Review agents have been flagged by governance and are paused pending human review. Retired agents are decommissioned — their certificates are revoked and their history is preserved in the audit trail.
The full fleet view
The Lifecycle dashboard shows your entire fleet in one view. You can filter by zone, state, archetype, or governance status. The fleet view is where you spot problems — agents with declining trust scores, agents that haven’t been evaluated in weeks, or agents with unusually high escalation rates.
Retiring an agent
When an agent is no longer needed, retire it from the Lifecycle dashboard. Retiring an agent revokes its certificate, moves it to Retired status, and preserves its full governance history. Retired agents count against your plan limits while in the 30-day retention window, after which they are archived.