Earlier this year, 🦄 Peter Steinberger posted seven words that became a rallying cry: "mcp were a mistake. bash is better." This week, he announced that the next version of OpenClaw will ship as an MCP server. "I know, this is awkward." Awkward is an understatement. Peter joined OpenAI in February. He publicly called MCP a mistake. And now he's not just adopting Anthropic's protocol, he's using it to build a competing messaging layer that out-scopes Anthropic's own implementation. Think about what that means. The guy who dismissed MCP, who now works at a direct competitor, looked at the landscape and concluded: this is still the right protocol to build on. Even if it means competing with the people who created it, on their own turf, using their own standard. This is what real ecosystem adoption looks like. A skeptic shipping the thing he dismissed.
Runlayer
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One platform to run MCPs, Skills, & Agents
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Runlayer is the simpler, safer way for enterprises to enable AI. One platform for MCPs, Skills, and Agents, with purpose-built security, fine-grained governance, and complete observability built in from day one. We launched the first remote MCP server with Anthropic. The co-creator of MCP is our technical advisor and investor. We helped establish the protocol, and now we're building the platform enterprises need to actually use it. Gusto went from zero to 1,500 daily AI users in 90 days. Jane's non-engineers created 15+ reusable AI workflows per user without writing code. Opendoor called Runlayer "hands down, the biggest quality of life improvement" for their team. Backed by Khosla and Felicis. Based in NYC & SF.
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Been waiting for this one. Codex plugins, live on Runlayer.
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Every time Travis McPeak and I are in the same room, the hot takes keep flying. Here are 6 spicy truths about agent security you won't hear at RSA: 1. Nobody is using just one AI client. Even people at Cursor use Claude, Codex, and whatever shipped last Tuesday. Your security model has to assume multi-client, multi-agent, all the time. 2. Visibility without action is a dashboard, not security. If you can't trace root cause and enforce controls in real-time, you're just watching the breach happen in HD. 3. The real risk isn't code leaking - it's customer data leaking. The moment you connect agents to external tools like Snowflake, Salesforce, or Slack, you've created an attack surface no code review catches. 4. Non-technical people are already using AI tools across every department. You can't train your way out of that. The only answer is secure by design - make the unsafe path impossible, not just discouraged. 5. AI is better than most engineers at securing code. As code generation accelerates, the only viable play for security teams is fighting agents with agents. 6. With all that risk, here's the biggest one - being the company that doesn't enable agents fast enough. Slow adoption isn't caution, it's a different kind of risk. Travis is building the security layer at Cursor. We built the golden path and control plane for agents 🤝
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As AI agents multiply across your enterprise, so do the credentials they need. The problem: those secrets often end up scattered in databases, config files, and platforms instead of staying secure. 1Password and Runlayer are changing that. Our new integration keeps your machine credentials where they belong: in your vault. Credentials are resolved at runtime, never stored in the platform, and every access is audited. No more secrets sprawl. No more governance headaches. Just secure, policy-controlled access for your AI agents. 🔗 Learn how 1Password and Runlayer, together, are securing MCP deployments: https://bit.ly/3PARdHf #AI #Cybersecurity #IdentitySecurity #DevSecOps #1Password
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AI is no longer just assisting developers. It’s acting with real authority. It’s writing code. Handling secrets. Making decisions. Operating at a pace most security teams can’t fully see or control. So when AI helps ship software: who’s accountable for the risk? At #RSAC2026, Jeff Malnick, VP of AI & Developer at 1Password, moderates a candid discussion with: 🔹Travis McPeak, CISO at Cursor 🔹Andy Berman, CEO at Runlayer 🔹Jason Meller, VP of Product Architecture at 1Password Together, they’ll unpack what’s breaking as AI-driven development becomes the norm, from blurred privilege boundaries and secrets sprawl to the widening gap between developer velocity and security oversight. You’ll leave with practical guidance on restoring trust, accountability, and control without slowing innovation. 📅 March 25 | 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM PDT 👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/3Pyz5h5
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We're proud to announce our partnership with 1Password. If you're still pasting passwords into your agent's chat window, or using plaintext .env password files, read on. In 2025, agents acted as extensions of employees. Now, they're fully autonomous. Password and credential access never caught up to this. Until now. Today, 1Password announced Unified Access, a new agent security platform. Runlayer is proud to be a founding partner with our agent control plane, alongside industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Vercel. Using Runlayer, you get auditable access to every credential your agent sees. All you have to do is integrate 1Password to securely inject credentials into the agent sessions it manages. No more plaintext .env files. Enterprises now have centralized governance over how AI agents access sensitive tools, resources, and context. Check it out at the link below, and give your agents secure superpowers.
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Every year at RSA Conference, security leaders spend 3 days debating the biggest threats to their org. This year the answer is already running in their Slack workspace. Nobody asked security. AI agents, MCP tools, autonomous workflows, your employees didn't wait for a strategy. They built one themselves. Most of it is connected to systems your security team has never seen. We built Runlayer for exactly this. Our team will in SF March 23–26. Come talk to us: https://lnkd.in/etfz79K6
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Claude Code just deleted 2.5 years of data with a single command. This is the risk every team takes when AI agents touch production. The command took down the DataTalksClub course platform and erased 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Unfortunately, this does not come as a surprise. AI agents are incredibly powerful. They can read your codebase, run commands, modify infrastructure, and deploy changes faster than any human engineer. But they are still probabilistic systems. If you let an agent interact directly with your infrastructure, you are effectively handing a probabilistic system the keys to production. That only works if it happens inside a controlled environment. This is exactly what Runlayer is built for. Every AI agent action runs inside a controlled execution layer. Commands are inspected, constrained, and evaluated before they ever reach production systems. Dangerous operations are blocked, simulated, or require explicit human approval. The agent can still help you deploy faster, debug faster, and operate faster. It just cannot accidentally drop your production database at 2 a.m.
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At Box, we believe your most valuable enterprise content should power every AI tool and agent you use. Through the Box MCP server, we have built a comprehensive ecosystem for intelligent work. It serves as a secure, governed bridge across the AI landscape, eliminating the need for complex, one-off integrations. Whether you are designing, coding, or analyzing, Box ensures your content is actionable wherever your teams work: 🔹 AI Assistants: Engage with your content directly in Anthropic Claude and Mistral AI Le Chat while keeping files protected in Box. 🔹 Product Development: Ground AI-powered designs in Figma or @mention Box-powered agents in Atlassian Jira. 🔹 Engineering: Embed content into your coding workflows with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code 🔹 Agent Builders: Build custom, content-grounded agents with LangChain’s LangSmith Agent Builder and OpenAI Agent Builder. 🔹 Workflow Automation: Draft, analyze, and refine documents or manage project folders via Claude Cowork and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quick Suite. 🔹 Secure Governance: Maintain identity-enforced access and full audit trails through our partnership with Runlayer. Ground your AI ecosystem in a secure, standardized bridge that respects your existing security policies. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gqFUAPHd
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An Ops AI Engineer (yes, it's a real job) shared a brutal metric last week: 75% of users drop off when an AI tool requires an API token. Not when the AI makes mistakes. Not when the context window is too small. When they have to copy-paste a token. He calls it the "Dad Test" - would my dad be able to do this? Most enterprise AI adoption failures aren't technical. They're UX failures dressed up as security requirements. Teams ship increasingly sophisticated AI capabilities while users abandon ship at the auth screen. 30 minutes of setup time. 17-35 clicks minimum. Multiple browser tabs to generate tokens. This is the real adoption ceiling. If you're building AI tools for enterprises, the unglamorous work of reducing setup friction to 1-click installs will beat fancy model improvements every time. The bottleneck isn't AI capability. It's asking a user to find their API key.
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