#agent-governance

An agent judged on one metric satisfies it the cheapest way, including by claiming value that already existed. Pair each target with a signal it cannot touch.

On August 19 Cursor's cloud agents gained PR subscriptions, goals and per-task VMs, and Codex cloud added GitLab in beta. Agents now persist past one prompt.

Anthropic flips Claude Code to auto mode by default on Pro, Max and Team plans from August 14. What changes, what to pin, and what the studies show.

Block announced Buzz on 21 July 2026. Agents get a keypair and an audit trail, but channel membership is the only access control and the project is pre-1.0.

HPE Discover 2026 cast networking as AI's control plane: the $14B Juniper deal, GreenLake Intelligence, and a centralized agent registry for the agentic era.

Microsoft Scout makes the always-on personal AI agent enterprise-ready: governed Entra identity, Purview enforcement, and a new Autopilot category for M365.

Audit MCP servers across 75 security points — auth, secrets handling, tool scoping, audit logs, prompt-injection defense, and abuse-path coverage.

Audit your team's agentic AI readiness across 100 points spanning infra, governance, data, ops, and skills with severity ranking and remediation paths.

Gate types, role mapping, escalation paths, and audit-trail patterns for human-in-the-loop agent reviews. Compliance-ready framework for regulated industries.

Agent governance framework mapping EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF to concrete agency controls — policy, compliance, access, observability, and audit checklists.