# Something New Has to Sit Between Agents and Databases

DevFeed: [Something New Has to Sit Between Agents and Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/something-new-has-to-sit-between-agents-and-databases-34131.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://flashdba.com/2026/06/15/something-new-has-to-sit-between-agents-and-databases/>)

Author: flashdba

Published: 2026-06-15T12:46:59Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [flashdba](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/flashdba.md>)

Topics: [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Enterprise Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/enterprise-architecture.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/credentials.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [databases-and-agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases-and-agentic-ai.md>), [enterprise-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise-architecture.md>), [inferencing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inferencing.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>)

## AI overview

This article argues that agentic AI removes human dependencies that enterprise architectures and systems of record have implicitly relied on. It proposes a deliberate intermediary layer between agents and databases to provide identity, intent recovery, rate control, behavioural reasoning, and accountability requirements that existing infrastructure does not address.

## Source excerpt

Enterprise architecture depended on humans in ways nobody designed - and agentic AI is removing those dependencies. Something new has to sit between agents and databases, and it needs to be built deliberately.