Salesforce’s MuleSoft Adds Agent Fabric To Bring Integration Prowess To The AI Era

‘MuleSoft Agent Fabric is taking that two decades of knowledge and skill and experience and bringing it to the genetic landscape to enable agentic enterprises or companies who want to become more agentic,’ MuleSoft SVP and GM Andrew Comstock says.

MuleSoft, an integration platform provider that is part of Salesforce, has revealed an Agent Fabric product that includes an artificial intelligence agent governance capability–now generally available–and with plans to make agent broker, visualizer and registry options GA in October.

The new AI agent capabilities are a natural extension of the application connection and governance abilities MuleSoft–founded in 2006 and bought by San Francisco-based Salesforce in 2018–brought to the cloud era, Andrew Comstock, MuleSoft senior vice president and general manager, told CRN in an interview.

The new capabilities aim to address agent sprawl that can come as companies adopt more AI tools and end up with disconnected workflows, redundant automations and run afoul of compliance.

“MuleSoft Agent Fabric is taking that two decades of knowledge and skill and experience and bringing it to the genetic landscape to enable agentic enterprises or companies who want to become more agentic,” Comstock said.

Agentic MuleSoft

Kurt Anderson, managing director and application programming interface (API) transformation leader at MuleSoft partner Deloitte Consulting, told CRN in an interview that MuleSoft’s reputation for governing integrations even if they didn’t come from parent Salesforce is powerful and a natural extension to its new agent fabric capabilities.

MuleSoft can even “move up the stack in terms of supporting design time and static use cases into moving into execution time and then moving from insights into actions,” he said. “We’re just scratching the tip of the iceberg in terms of penetrating the available use cases and processes in insights and then introducing agent-laid actions inside of them.”

The goal of MuleSoft Agent Fabric is to put unmanaged AI agents into secure, intelligent networks with a single place users can register, orchestrate, govern and observe agents, even if they were built outside of Salesforce.

Enterprises that use AI agents will need a variety of systems to continue communicating with each other, according to MuleSoft. For example, a retailer using an agent to track inventory, another to update prices and a third to detect fraud will need information shared among the agents while also keeping sensitive data safeguarded.

In August, Gartner reported that it expects 40 percent of enterprise applications to integrate with task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026. Today, the share is less than 5 percent. Agentic AI could drive about 30 percent of enterprise app software revenue by 2035, surpassing $450 billion. That share is about 2 percent this year.

The MuleSoft Agent Governance capability, now GA, applies enterprise-grade security, compliance and policy controls to every agent interaction.

The agent broker, now in beta and entering GA in October, organizes AI agents and tools into business-focused domains. The broker dynamically routes tasks across the agents and tools. Users can choose their large language model (LLM) and leverage Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect agents.

MuleSoft Agent Visualizer maps the agent ecosystem, showing connections, interaction and performance, according to the vendor. IT teams can use the visualizer to optimize performance and prevent failures. The agent registry also going GA in October is a central catalog for users to register MCP servers, A2A servers and other tools and agents. Developers and agents can discover assets in the catalog, which should simplify reuse and composing into workflows.

Salesforce revealed to CRN this year that efforts to grow Salesforce’s partner ecosystem have resulted in reaching about 16,000 partners, 9,000 of them in consulting—more than 30 percent growth in total partners and around 50 percent growth in consulting partners compared with last summer.