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News from 2026-09-17

Arcjet launches Agent Runtime Security

In short

17 September 2026: Arcjet launches Agent Runtime Security. Arcjet added runtime controls for AI agents that observe activity through OpenTelemetry, enforce policies on tool calls, APIs and databases, and keep an audit trail. Its inbound bot protection still verifies known bots by IP and reverse DNS. Arcjet's price: from USD 25/month plus USD 5 per 1M web requests. Affects Arcjet.

Arcjet added runtime controls for AI agents that observe activity through OpenTelemetry, enforce policies on tool calls, APIs and databases, and keep an audit trail. Its inbound bot protection still verifies known bots by IP and reverse DNS.

Primary source arcjet.com/blog/introducing-agent-runtime-security-observe-enforce-audit, read 2026-11-04.

Where it stands in the Index

Arcjet
Vendor. Developer security SDK that runs bot detection, rate limits and WAF rules inside application code; it verifies known bots by IP and reverse DNS and in late 2026 added runtime security for AI agents.

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Last reviewed 2026-11-04