{
  "id": 14224160,
  "title": "The agent did the work. The audit log couldn’t say who asked.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/the-agent-did-the-work-the-audit-log-couldnt-say-who-asked",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T15:00:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Stack",
    "slug": "the-new-stack",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/ai-agent-credentials-identity-provider/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "According to a recent article in The New Stack, Shawn Petty's team found that more than 20 percent of the MCP-related access policies in customer and prospect environments were either broken or missing. Typically, the MCP server operated using someone's personal token instead of a service account.\n\nOn Tuesday, October 27 at 12 p.m. Eastern/9 a.m. Pacific, Petty, CloudBolt's Chief Customer Officer, and Mike Bombard, CloudBolt's Director of Global Pre-Sales Engineering, will host a live demonstration on how to trace an agent's actions back to the responsible individual. During the webinar, they will discuss the challenges preventing teams from automating Kubernetes resource optimization further, including concerns about pod restarts, interference with autoscaling, and handling unpredictable workloads. Attendees are encouraged to register for this event.",
  "summary": "More than 20 percent of the MCP-related access policies that Shawn Petty’s team reviewed across customer and prospect environments were The post The agent did the work. The audit log couldn’t say who asked. appeared first on The New Stack .",
  "key_points": [
    "20% of MCP access policies broken or missing",
    "Live demonstration on October 27 at 12 p.m. ET",
    "Tracing agent actions to responsible individual"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}