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IBM announces Agent Identity general availability; discovery and containment remain preview

IBM announced Agent Identity general availability on 26 October 2026, describing delegated OAuth context, task-scoped credentials, ownership and audit trails; its 27 October TechXchange release elaborated Vault integration. Agent Identity GA does not mean Orchestrate's cross-platform agent discovery and containment or automatic kill switch is GA; those remain technical preview. Vendor security effectiveness is not independently established.