Snyk launches Evo Agentic Development Security to police AI coding agents
Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today launched Evo Agentic Development Security, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security platform built to police the autonomous coding agents that increasingly build enterprise software without much human oversight.
The product, which Snyk shortens to Evo ADS, aims to govern three things at once: the tools an agent pulls in, the actions it takes while running and the code it generates. It enforces those controls inside the agent’s workflow rather than scanning the output afterward.
Snyk is pitching the launch as a response to a gap that conventional security tooling was never designed to cover. AI coding assistants have turned into autonomous agents that call external tools, take actions and connect to internal systems through Model Context Protocol servers, plugins and third-party integrations. Most existing tools scan code after it is written and have no view into those connections or into what an agent does at runtime.
The company backs the argument with telemetry it collected from nearly 9,700 developer environments. Snyk found that 43% of developers run two or more AI coding environments at the same time and more than half have MCP servers installed, with the most heavily instrumented environment running more than 80 at once.
