Policy dependency / Stack layer
CROSS-CATEGORY: MCP Governance Shipped Simultaneously in DevTools, Infrastructure and Security in a Single Week
Multiple Sources (digitalapplied on GitHub's Aug 6–7 releases; GlobeNewswire/Virtualization Review on Nutanix Aug 10; Forkast on Black Hat USA 2026)
Policy dependency / Stack layer
POLIS 5,280-Episode Study: Provenance-Aware Guards Block Authority Laundering That Local-State Guards Miss in 22 of 96 Episodes
arXiv 2608.09828
Stack layer / Threat pattern
NVIDIA ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE built for agent loops, plus NeMo Switchyard routing that cuts task cost to a third of Opus 4.8
NVIDIA Blog
Stack layer / Threat pattern
AI/Cockpit One launches as a single-tenant control plane sitting in front of Langflow, Flowise, and n8n
GlobeNewswire
Policy dependency / Stack layer
OpenAI Agents SDK 0.20.0 switches the default model to gpt-5.6-luna and takes a breaking MCP v2 dependency
GitHub (openai/openai-agents-python)
Stack layer / Update thread
Octomind Shipped Per-Second Billing for Cloud Agents Across 27 Models With No API Keys
Product Hunt (August 11 daily leaderboard; single source)
Stack layer / Contrast
ActBench: Attack Success Against Cowork Agents Ranges 10.1%–94.4% Across Models but Only 73.7%–94.4% Across Harnesses — the Model Matters More Than the Scaffold
arXiv 2608.09476
Stack layer / Threat pattern
GhostSplice: Splitting a Refused Request Across Three MCP Channels Turns Agent Refusal Into 100% Compliance
ASSET Research Group