Gemini agents in your SCIM feed: How to provision non-human users

Google’s Gemini coworker agents are Workspace-based AI principals with their own email addresses, calendars, Drive storage, directory entries, audit identities, and OAuth-based access, allowing them to appear in downstream B2B applications much like employees. Because standard directory and SCIM user records do not reliably distinguish AI agents from people, applications receiving users through Google Workspace, SCIM, HRIS, or other directory-sync sources may provision, bill, authenticate, and audit agents incorrectly unless they introduce an explicit principal classification. The text recommends classifying accounts at ingestion using stable directory IDs, available signals such as the documented agent email domain and mapped custom attributes, and customer-admin overrides, while preserving an “unknown” category rather than defaulting ambiguous accounts to humans. It also emphasizes that deprovisioning must respond to both inactive updates and deletion events by revoking tokens, ending sessions, and stopping ongoing automated work, since merely marking an account inactive may leave long-lived agent access intact. Recording actor type at the time of each audit event and establishing organization-specific seat policies can help organizations reconcile their logs, billing, security controls, and compliance requirements as persistent and temporary AI identities become more common.

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