CROSS-CATEGORY: Four Products Shipped Pre-Execution Assurance for Agent Tools in 48 Hours

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Between 2026-09-03 and 2026-09-04 four unrelated products posted static, pre-execution assurance for agent tooling: Glama's TDQS scoring registry, a zero-execution MCP Security Auditor on Apify, Agent Looker on Product Hunt auditing risky agent behaviors, and ARBR, an open-source framework for detailed oversight of API calls in AI applications. This is a distinct layer from the runtime authorization control planes that shipped earlier in the week: these inspect the tool definition and source before anything runs, rather than gating the call. The shape to watch is that agent tooling is growing a supply-chain review step, and it is arriving from four independent builders rather than one vendor category.