Week of Feb 16–22, 2026

Anthropic released Claude Code Security as a limited research preview for Enterprise and Team customers, with expedited free access for open-source maintainers. The tool reasons about data flow across a codebase, re-examines each finding in a multi-stage verification pass, assigns severity and confidence ratings, and proposes patches that are applied only with human approval.

CAISI, with NIST's Information Technology Laboratory, launched an initiative to support industry-led standards and open protocols for AI agents and research on agent security and identity. Announced deliverables included the agent security RFI, an AI agent identity and authorization concept paper with comments due April 2, 2026, and sector listening sessions from April 2026.