August 2026 Summaries

Arcade.dev has acquired Smithery, a public registry and hosting platform for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and Smithery co-founder Anirudh Kamath will join the Arcade team. The acquisition combines Smithery’s developer-focused approach to discovering and running MCP tools with Arcade’s enterprise emphasis on security, reliability, and governance for AI agents in production. Arcade argues that while MCP adoption and tool creation have accelerated, tool quality and lifecycle management must become greater priorities as enterprises deploy agents at scale. Smithery will continue to offer developers a simple way to find and launch MCP servers, while its integration into Arcade is intended to support more secure, dependable, and manageable agent-tool connections for business use cases.

Arcade.dev has joined the Cisco Duo marketplace as an ecosystem partner, enabling organizations to use their existing Duo identity and access management policies to govern actions performed by AI agents. Arcade acts as an enterprise agent actions runtime, routing each tool call through Cisco Duo for authorization while ensuring agents operate on behalf of authenticated users without exposing credentials to prompts or models. The integration applies Duo-managed identities, groups, roles, scopes, and audit controls to agent activity, while Arcade can add runtime contextual safeguards such as step-up multifactor authentication for sensitive actions. For Duo customers, the arrangement provides a reusable security and enforcement foundation for deploying multiple AI agents under existing access-control and auditing practices.