This is a collection of resources supporting the idea that provable runtime security guarantees for agents can be intrinsically bound to agent identity, perhaps as part of a broader representation of "intent", or in a tiered trust model. TEEs, hypervisor-enforced isolation, hardware roots of trust and several Linux security primitives are instrumental to get there. We curate some of the most promising references to date including applied technologies in agent frameworks, research and risk/mitigation-focused literature on this topic.
Risk/mitigation literature that discusses the importance of agent runtime security includes:
- SAFE-MCP
- CoSAI's MCP Security document
- [OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications](https://genai.owasp.org/resource/owasp-top-10-for-agentic-applications-for-2026