India, Oct. 16 -- For enterprises experimenting with AI agents, the difficult questions begin when those agents get access to live business data. Can they be trusted to update the right customer record? Will they stay within the permissions of the person making the request? And if something goes wrong, can the company trace what happened?

These are the concerns MongoDB is seeking to address as it expands into the infrastructure behind agentic applications. Atlas Agent Engine brings together execution, memory, retrieval, and governance, with India-based engineers contributing to its development. Teams in India also work on the company's self-managed database and application modernisation efforts.

In an interview with Dataquest,Ashish Kum...