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Okta agreed to acquire Permiso Security in a deal reportedly worth just under $200 million, adding technology that detects suspicious behavior involving employees, service accounts, applications, and AI agents after they have authenticated. The acquisition pushes Okta deeper into identity threat detection and response and the security operations center, with capabilities for identifying excessive privileges, compromised identities, and anomalous agent activity across cloud and SaaS environments.

Agent Behavior is an open standard for defining and evaluating how an AI agent should behave across a whole trajectory. Each behavior spec is a Markdown file that describes the recurring conduct that makes the agent reliable. The spec gives reviewers, rubrics, scorers, and evals something concrete to measure against. It can be used to review traces, write eval cases, revise prompts or tools, and communicate intended agent conduct to teams.

A Reddit complaint about a tool someone already pays for can be more useful than a "recommend me a tool" post.