Leash by StrongDM (leash.strongdm.ai)

StrongDM has announced the launch of Leash, a security infrastructure designed specifically to authorize, monitor, and audit AI agents. This tool is significant for the AI/ML community as it addresses critical safety concerns associated with deploying AI agents by enforcing real-time policies and boundaries. Leash ensures that AI systems operate within defined limits, enhancing security and trust. Leash offers several key technical features: it provides sandboxed execution, isolating each agent's environment to contain any potential damage and prevent unauthorized access to systems. It integrates support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing precise control over which MCP servers agents can access and facilitating detailed monitoring of their tool usage. Furthermore, Leash utilizes Cedar, a policy language that allows developers to create and enforce detailed security policies, blocking unauthorized actions with fine-grained access controls. By facilitating a smooth transition from development to production with stable security guarantees, and with its open-source availability under the Apache 2 license, Leash aims to foster the future of secure AI agent deployments.