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# Onboarding Agents

### Overview

This section explains how to onboard agents into your BalkanID tenant so they can be owned, investigated, and governed as part of **IGA for Non-Human Identities (NHI)**.

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**Early Access:** Onboarding and governing agents requires Agents (Early Access). Contact Customer Support to enable it for your tenant.
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You can onboard agents in three ways:

1. [**Manual Registration**](/agents/onboarding-agents/manual-registration.md) — Register agents directly in the BalkanID UI.
2. [**Uploading Agents by CSV** ](/agents/onboarding-agents/uploading-agents-by-csv.md)— Import or update agents in bulk from a CSV file.
3. [**Discovering Agents from Integrations**](/agents/onboarding-agents/discovering-agents-from-integrations.md) — Extract agents automatically from a supported application integration.

### Which method should I use?

| Method                          | Best for                                                                                         |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Manual registration**         | A small number of agents, quick onboarding, or agents that do not exist in a supported extractor |
| **CSV upload**                  | Backfilling or updating a large agent inventory                                                  |
| **Discovery from integrations** | Applications BalkanID can extract from automatically (for example, Anthropic)                    |

After agents are onboarded, assign an owner (if needed) and associate the identities and credentials the agent has access to. See [Introduction to Agents](/agents/introduction-to-agents.md) and [Mapping Identities and Credentials to Agents](/agents/mapping-identities-and-credentials-to-agents.md).


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