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Keith Mann is the Field CTO & Head of Research at Harness

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Organizations Are Confident Their Agents Are Behaving. But They Can't Check.

The State of Agent DLC 2026 asked 700 organizations already running AI agents how confident they were across five domains: testing, security, inventory, cost, and rollback. Confidence came back between 74% and 77% in every domain we tested. In most of them, the controls that would justify it are not there.

Organizations Are Confident Their Agents Are Behaving. But They Can't Check.
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Organizations Are Confident Their Agents Are Behaving. But They Can't Check.

The State of Agent DLC 2026 asked 700 organizations already running AI agents how confident they were across five domains: testing, security, inventory, cost, and rollback. Confidence came back between 74% and 77% in every domain we tested. In most of them, the controls that would justify it are not there.

Organizations Are Confident Their Agents Are Behaving. But They Can't Check.
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