Token Security Just Made Intent the Missing Dimension in AI Agent Security. Identity Is Still the Foundation.

Token Security announced intent-based AI agent security today. Their thesis: static permissions and prompt guardrails are not enough for autonomous agents. You need to understand what an agent is designed to do before you can govern what it can access. They are right. And the implications run deeper than their product addresses. The Core Insight Token Security's CEO Itamar Apelblat put it clearly: "Prompt filtering and guardrails were not designed to fully contain the security risks introduced by autonomous AI agents." Their five capabilities — continuous agent discovery, intent understanding, dynamic least-privilege, intent boundary enforcement, and lifecycle governance — represent a real step forward. The key insight is that two agents with identical permissions can behave completely differently depending on their goals. Static RBAC cannot capture this. This is the same structural problem the Agents of Chaos study identified: display name spoofing enabled full agent takeover in 45 se