What happened
Lineation.ai publicly launched (July 15, 2026) an agentic security platform combining a Zero Trust unified control plane with a lightweight endpoint daemon, assigning non-human identities to agents, validating MCP handshakes in real time to stop prompt injection, and producing an immutable 'Reasoning Audit Trail' for compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, EU AI Act).
Why it matters
A notable new entrant addressing MCP-layer runtime defense and agent identity/audit — a gap traditional LLM gateways don't cover — via a freemium Cloud Starter tier that lowers adoption friction.
Applicability
Teams running autonomous agents with MCP/tool access and needing regulator-facing audit trails should evaluate; early-stage vendor so treat as watch-list/pilot candidate rather than default choice.