Glean Introduces Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle Framework

May 13, 2026

Glean released its Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) on May 12, 2026, addressing governance challenges faced after its December 2025 autonomous agents release. The framework features seven stages: Opportunity, Design, Performance, Input, Develop, Launch, and Monitor and Improve. Glean introduced eight capabilities including Auto Mode Agent Builder, Debug and Trace Views, Sub-Agents, Agent Sandbox, Library Controls, Triggers, Access Policies, and Insights Dashboard.

Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle framework

▪Glean's Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) framework gives Chief Information Officers and IT leaders a repeatable path to scale agents across their organizations
▪Glean released its Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) framework on May 12, 2026
▪Glean's Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) framework provides a structured approach for ensuring agents are useful, secure, and tied to measurable business outcomes

Glean's internal agent governance challenge

▪Glean faced thousands of agents built across teams with no consistent way to govern or measure them after releasing autonomous agents in December 2025
▪Glean's Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) framework draws from Glean's own experience with agent governance challenges
▪Glean released autonomous agents in December 2025

Seven-stage ADLC methodology

▪Glean's Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle features seven stages: Opportunity, Design, Performance, Input, Develop, Launch, and Monitor and Improve

Eight new platform capabilities

▪Glean's Content and Scheduled Triggers empowers agents to automatically react to content changes, scheduled runs, forms, and external events
▪Glean's new Agent Library Controls include verification badges, featured agents, departmental categories, and a soft-delete with an admin restore
▪Glean's updated Agent Insights Dashboard tracks adoption, top use cases, estimated hours saved, and feedback trends over time
▪Glean's Debug and Trace Views provides full visibility into every action taken by the AI agent, cataloging inputs, tool calls, LLM decisions, and outputs
▪Glean's expanded Agent Sandbox provides customers access to a secure file system and code execution within their virtual private cloud
▪Glean's Agent Access Policies provide organization-wide guardrails such as blocking or flagging sensitive material