Quiz: Orphaned AI Agents and Who Adopts Them After Owner Exits.
A quick workplace quiz about AI agents that remain after their creators exit and the agents retain schedules, permissions, dependencies and business responsibilities.
The Employee Left. Why Is Their AI Agent Still Working Here?
The builder left six months ago. The agent still has credentials, a schedule and something important happens every Tuesday. Nobody wants to switch it off.
Agents can survive reorganisations, promotions and resignations with impressive emotional resilience. Take five quick questions to see whether any have become digital tenants with no landlord.
How Many Agents Are Still on the Shadow Operating System?
Five quick questions, please do not switch anything off merely for dramatic effect.
What do you think is going on here?
If an agent is still working correctly, ownership can be sorted out later.
Match the question to the owner you need to name.
Word bank: Business owner · Technical owner · Access owner · Operational owner
Choose the line that sounds most like your organisation.
The agent fails at 09:00, what happens next?
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The creator left. The agent kept Tuesday.
Pattern spotting, not an organisational diagnosis. The useful question is whether the behaviour, owner, cost or learning route is visible.
So… what did you just spot?
This is an emerging risk: agents can outlive creators while retaining access, schedules, dependencies and business responsibilities. The Pattern is about ownership and continuity, not whether the agent is “good” or “bad”.