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April 17, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 12 min read
Agentic AI is the fastest-growing category in software. The EU AI Act deadline is 107 days away. This guide covers the three questions every auditor will ask about your autonomous AI agent and how to answer them with evidence.
April 10, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 10 min read
HMAC proves integrity but not identity. In multi-agent workflows, you need to prove which agent sent a task, which acknowledged it, and whether the payload was swapped. air-trust v0.6.0 adds Ed25519 signed handoff records with a three-record protocol, verifier, and threat model.
April 10, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 9 min read
HMAC proves records were not changed. It does not prove records were not deleted. If someone removes record #103, the remaining chain still verifies. air-trust v0.5.0 adds monotonic sequence numbers and gap detection to catch silently dropped records.
April 9, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 11 min read
What is the CSA Agentic Trust Framework? The five Identity Core Elements (I-1 to I-5), the Intern-to-Principal maturity ladder, and how to check ATF conformance for Python AI agents with air-trust v0.4.0.
April 8, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 14 min read
116 days until the EU AI Act enforcement date. This month-by-month roadmap breaks down exactly what Python teams need to implement - from baseline scanning to final verification - to reach compliance before August 2, 2026.
April 8, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 14 min read
What does EU AI Act Article 11 require for technical documentation? Annex IV checklist, model card Python code, documentation-as-code pipeline, and cross-references to Articles 9-15 for compliance before August 2026.
April 8, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 12 min read
How to build tamper-evident audit trails for AI agents using HMAC-SHA256 in Python. Step-by-step implementation covering EU AI Act Article 12 record-keeping, with air-trust code examples for LangChain, CrewAI, and OpenAI SDK.
April 3, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 8 min read
Anthropic's Claude Code source code leaked via NPM because no action firewall sat between the AI agent and a public registry. Here's how action gating prevents this class of AI agent leak - with code examples.
April 2, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 7 min read
AI agents pass SSNs, emails, and credit cards through LLM APIs unredacted. How to detect PII in agent payloads and add automatic redaction with Python before GDPR and EU AI Act enforcement.
March 30, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 15 min read
Side-by-side comparison of every open-source EU AI Act compliance scanner available in 2026. AIR Blackbox vs Systima Comply vs ArkForge vs EuConform - features, framework support, audit trails, and how to choose the right tool for your Python AI stack.
March 28, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 12 min read
The definitive checklist covering every technical requirement across Articles 9 through 15, organized by article with code examples showing how to automate each check.
March 28, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 10 min read
August 2, 2026 is the enforcement date for high-risk AI system requirements. Here is the complete timeline, what enforcement means in practice, and a 5-month action plan.
March 28, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 14 min read
What do EU AI Act Articles 9 through 15 actually require in your codebase? Article-by-article technical breakdown with code examples, compliance checks, and standards crosswalk to ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF for Python developers.
March 28, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 11 min read
LangChain has zero built-in EU AI Act compliance. Here is how to add trust layers, audit trails, GDPR scanning, and prompt injection detection to your LangChain agents.
March 28, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 12 min read
If you deploy AI in the EU, you are subject to both GDPR and the AI Act. This guide covers where they overlap, where they differ, and how to build systems that satisfy both.
March 26, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 8 min read
We scanned LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI SDK, and RAG pipelines for EU AI Act compliance. None scored higher than 1/6. Here's what each article requires in your codebase and how to fix it.
March 12, 2026 · Jason Shotwell · 6 min read
We scanned OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, Haystack, CrewAI, Phidata, GPT Researcher, and Mem0 for OAuth delegation tracking. Most have zero accountability for what agents do after authorization.