Agent Baseline: Docker, Barclays et al. Publish Open Reference Architecture for Securing Autonomous Software Factories
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-14
What Happened
Keycard, together with Docker, Barclays and Socket Security, published the first draft of the Agent Baseline Software Factory Reference Architecture — an opinionated, open blueprint for securing increasingly autonomous software factories, open for community feedback and contributions.
Context
- Motivated by incidents like agents deleting production databases; quotes Nadella's framing: "separate the supply of intelligence from the authority over it"
- Covers sandboxing, network, supply chain, identity, and dynamic real-time access/authorization
- Keycard's team has spent two years building agent identity and dynamic authorization infrastructure
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