BRIEF · NOV 5

NIST's AI agent identity tenets, scored against Okta and SailPoint

A four-question buyer's checklist, plus the pick for your team size.

NIST's ten AI agent identity tenets landed October 27, per its Cybersecurity Insights blog; we scored Okta, SailPoint, and SPIFFE/SPIRE against them. See the four-question buyer's checklist and the pick for your team size.

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Tools & How-To

Copilot lands in JetBrains Air.

It plugs in through the open Agent Client Protocol JetBrains co-built with Zed, per GitHub's changelog. Why the protocol choice counts.

GitHub Copilot inside Xcode's Intelligence settings

Copilot is now a model option in Xcode.

A public preview puts it in Xcode's native Intelligence settings beside Claude and ChatGPT, per GitHub's changelog. What the preview includes.

Dependabot opening a pull request for an agent's skill files

Dependabot now updates your agents' context.

It opens PRs for the skills, prompts, and instructions in Microsoft's Agent Package Manager, per GitHub's changelog. See which agent files it now tracks.

A GitHub security risk assessment flagging repo protection status

GitHub risk assessments now show repo protection status.

Each finding flags a protected or unprotected repository, so admins can triage coverage gaps first, per GitHub's changelog. Where to start triage.

Quick Hits

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Meta buys Conductor. Meta acquired the AI coding startup to bolster its software-development tooling, per TechCrunch.

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Uber's agent bookings are near zero. Uber says almost no one books rides through AI agents yet, per TechCrunch.

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Nothing's AI device ships next month. Nothing's CEO confirmed the AI-first hardware ships next month after months of teasers, per TechCrunch.

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Pondero Brief: NIST's agent identity tenets, scored: Okta, SPIFFE, or buy nothing