Evo ADS Govern Agent Behavior Goes GA: Bringing MCP Usage Under Control

Snyk has made its Govern Agent Behavior capability generally available within Evo Agentic Development Security, beginning with MCP Governance, which lets security and platform teams discover, approve, monitor, log, or block the Model Context Protocol servers used by AI coding agents at runtime. MCP servers enable agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot to access external tools, repositories, databases, cloud infrastructure, and internal APIs, but their dynamic installation and execution can create supply-chain risks that traditional application security processes may not detect. Snyk reports that scans of nearly 10,000 developer environments identified 4,524 unique active MCP servers, with more than half of developers connected to production systems and one in 12 developers using an MCP server with a confirmed high- or critical-severity issue. MCP Governance uses centrally defined approval policies and lightweight endpoint hooks to enforce decisions locally without requiring a proxy, infrastructure changes, or agent workflow modifications. The company describes the release as an initial step toward broader agent behavior controls, including restrictions on destructive actions, policy sources from repositories or Confluence, risk-based enforcement, sensitive-data protections, prompt-injection defenses, secret-exposure controls, and governance for agent skills.

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