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AWS just made the case for deterministic policy at the MCP gateway
In May, AWS published an engineering post explaining why Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore chose...

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The NSA just made the case for a policy layer in front of MCP
If you build infrastructure for AI agents, the NSA's May report on MCP security is the most important...

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MCP OAuth: Connecting Agents to Protected Servers
Static API keys in client config are the easy way to authenticate an MCP server and the easy way to...

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MCP Gateway: What It Is and Why Agent Fleets Need One
An MCP server exposes tools. delete_repository, create_charge, execute_query. The agent calls...

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MCP Authorization: Scoping What Agents Are Allowed to Do
A valid token gets an agent through the door. It says nothing about which rooms the agent should...

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MCP Authentication: Securing How Agents and Servers Connect
Every MCP server you connect to expects a credential. Stripe wants an API key. A GitHub server wants...

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AI Agent Containment Starts at the Environment Layer
Anthropic just published how they contain Claude. The number that should stop every platform team:...

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Tool-Result Injection: The MCP Attack System Prompts Miss
We've made the argument twice now: system prompts are not a security boundary, and prompt engineering...

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Namespace-Scope Your Kubernetes MCP Server From Production
An agent is investigating a crashloop. Someone pastes the wrong namespace into the chat —...

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Blocking Outbound Exfiltration Through MCP Fetch and HTTP Tools
An autonomous agent fetches a GitHub issue to triage it. Buried in the issue body, between two...

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Stop Your GitHub MCP Agent From Force-Pushing to main
An agent is chasing a flaky CI run at 02:00. It decides the remote branch is stale, picks the wrong...

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System Prompts vs. Transport Firewalls: Why System Prompts Do Not Equal Security
When deploying autonomous AI agents in production, securing their tool access is the most critical...

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Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit: 9 Packages, MCP-Blind
Microsoft just open-sourced the Agent Governance Toolkit — nine packages covering policy enforcement,...

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Why Prompt Guardrails Fail for AI Agent Safety (And What Works Instead)
Most teams building AI agents start with prompt guardrails as their safety strategy: write rules in...

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X Just Shipped an MCP Server. It Exposes 131 Tools With Zero Access Control.
X (formerly Twitter) just released xmcp, an official MCP server that wraps the entire X API v2. It is...

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We Scanned Popular Open Source MCP Configs. Here's What We Found.
Every major developer platform now ships an MCP server. Stripe, GitHub, Supabase, Cloudflare, Sentry,...

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Secure Your Stripe MCP Server: Rate Limits and Spending Controls
Your AI support agent just issued 200 refunds in three minutes. It misread a batch of customer...

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Preventing Your AI Agent From Messaging #general
It starts innocently. You give your agent access to Slack so it can post a daily standup summary....

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One FLUSHALL Away From Losing Everything
Your AI agent just ran FLUSHALL. Your session cache, your rate limiter state, your feature flags,...

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Your AI Agent Can Run DROP TABLE on Production
Your AI agent just ran DELETE FROM users without a WHERE clause. It was trying to remove a single...

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Your AI Agent Can Send Emails as You
Your AI assistant just emailed your entire contact list. It was supposed to reply to one customer —...

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Your AI Agent Has Push Access to Every Repo
Your coding agent just merged a pull request to main, deleted three files it thought were unused, and...

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Your Coding Agent Can Delete Any File on Disk
Picture this. You ask your coding agent to "tidy up the config files." It interprets that broadly. It...

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Your AI Agent Can Delete Every Container on Your Machine
Your AI coding assistant just wiped your local Docker environment. You asked it to "clean up that...
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