What happened
Lineation.ai announced (July 15, 2026) public launch of an agentic security platform combining a Zero Trust unified control plane with a lightweight endpoint daemon that assigns Non-Human Identities to every agent, validates MCP handshakes/API calls in real time to stop prompt injection and goal hijacking, and produces an immutable 'Reasoning Audit Trail' for compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, EU AI Act).
Why it matters
One of the first platforms to enforce policy directly at the MCP protocol layer with per-agent non-human identity and full reasoning-trace replay, addressing blind spots in standard LLM gateways as MCP becomes the dominant agent-to-tool interface.
Applicability
Security architecture teams building agent-to-tool integrations over MCP should evaluate as a dedicated runtime defense layer, especially in regulated (HIPAA/EU AI Act) environments.