Fighting Tool Sprawl: The Case for AI Tool Registries

As enterprise AI agent adoption scales, the absence of centralized, organization-level tool infrastructure is producing compounding costs. This article argues for internal tool registries to reduce duplication, security exposure, and operational opacity. Drawing parallels to package managers, it outlines how registries enable discovery, versioning, certification metadata, and access control, making governance possible. Inaction leads to technical debt and widening security gaps.