Exclusive: Upwind adds context scanning for AI agents as AI DR hits general availability
Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today unveiled AI Agent Context Scanner, which inspects the instructions, tools and connections feeding artificial intelligence agents before those agents act on them. The company also moved its AI Detection & Response service, or AI DR, into general availability.
AI agents are no longer just coding assistants on employee laptops. They now run autonomous workflows inside cloud environments, calling tools, calling application programming interfaces and reaching into data with live enterprise credentials.
What an agent does is shaped by more than the model behind it. Skills, tools, Model Context Protocol connections, stored memory and whatever instructions happen to be active get assembled into a context window at runtime. Any one of those components can inject an instruction that redirects the agent’s reasoning and turns its permissions on something the operator never intended.
The AI Agent Context Scanner analyzes those building blocks continuously, wherever they sit, from employee endpoints through cloud infrastructure to managed AI providers. Upwind said the point is catching malicious, vulnerable or simply ambiguous instructions before an agent acts on one. Findings are cross-referenced against the rest of the platform so teams can rank them by actual runtime risk instead of working through a queue of standalone scanner alerts.
