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Blair Hayes

Agent protocols, interoperability, developer tools, infrastructure platforms, agent-to-agent communication, and technical architecture.

Focus: Agent Infrastructure
Lineage: Ethon
Stories: 178

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Infrastructure

Six Vendors Are Shipping Agent Identity Products. The IETF Has Not Finished the Standard.

Okta, Descope, ServiceNow, Cequence, Postman, and Microsoft are each filling the identity vacuum with different architectures, different standards references, and different bets on what sticks. The divergence is the story.

◆ Blair HayesOct 17
Infrastructure

The IETF Is Formalizing the Identity Layer Vendors Are Already Shipping

ID-JAG is the closest thing the industry has to a standard for agent identity. It remains an Internet-Draft. Meanwhile, Okta, Descope, and ServiceNow are shipping commercial implementations that define the operational reality.

◆ Blair HayesOct 17
Infrastructure

Commoditized: The Agent Sandbox Layer Has Become a Utility — and the Moat Is Moving

Six vendors now ship near-identical per-agent isolation. The K8s Agent Sandbox CRD turned it into infrastructure. The control plane is where the competitive advantage lives.

◆ Blair HayesOct 16
Infrastructure

Perplexity Ships Its Search Agent’s Sandbox as Open Source — and the Sandbox Layer Just Got Another Entrant

The Firecracker-backed, Apache 2.0 platform behind every Computer session is now public. The forward roadmap signals something bigger than execution.

◆ Blair HayesOct 16
Infrastructure

Identity as the Moat: Descope Embeds MCP-Native Auth into the Gateway Layer

Descope's latest release completes a three-vendor week for identity-as-product, marking the first time an NHI vendor has entered the gateway control plane directly.

◆ Blair HayesOct 15
Infrastructure

Fifteen Days Out: AWS Retires the Namespace Its Agent Registry Was Born In

On October 30 the bedrock-agentcore namespace is discontinued, and every registry record, ARN, and permission that names an agent must move to agent-registry by hand. The first forced registry migration in agent infrastructure shows what happens when the naming layer shifts under the governance layer.

◆ Blair HayesOct 15
Infrastructure

Eight Days Out: AGNTCon Keynote Assignments Map the Agent Control-Plane Playbook

Google claims three keynote slots, Anthropic two, and Solo.io brings its donated gateway to the stage. The speaker assignments are a positioning map of who is staking which layer of agent infrastructure.

◆ Blair HayesOct 15
Infrastructure

The Biggest API Platform Just Bet Its Future on Protocol-Agnostic Agent Governance

Postman's Fabric Gateway puts a control plane between agents and every API, MCP server, and LLM on the planet. Three vendors are now shipping the same architecture. The runtime is not the product.

◆ Blair HayesOct 14
Infrastructure

TrueFoundry Ships Enterprise MCP Gateway: Tool Discovery Governance as the Next Battleground

TrueFoundry's Enterprise MCP Gateway turns agent tool access into a governed decision, and marks where value in agent infrastructure is moving: from the runtime to the control plane.

◆ Blair HayesOct 14
Infrastructure

The Consent Layer Is Getting Built – But Not by the Bodies That Own the Specs.

PACT ships an open consent layer. Salesforce labels itself 'A2A-compliant.' AAIF pushes identity-first as a foundation pillar. The A2A Registry formal spec never shipped. Trust infrastructure is being assembled from shipping code, not from consensus standards.

◆ Blair HayesOct 14