Runtime security for AI coding agents: Protecting AI-assisted development

Sysdig announces runtime detections for AI coding agents to give security teams real-time visibility into agent behavior across developer and cloud environments, highlighting risks such as remote code execution, credential theft, malicious code generation, data leakage, and supply-chain attacks. The blog outlines how detections identify agent installations and monitor actions (sensitive file access, risky CLI args, unauthorized processes), and positions these runtime rules as an extension of Sysdig’s AI workload security and CNAPP capabilities to help organizations safely adopt AI-assisted development.