The Control Layer Becomes Critical
Who Really Sits In Front Of The Agents
This week is about the control layer starting to show its face.
Cloud providers are wiring themselves together so customers can chase the models wherever they actually live. Platforms are buying identity graphs so they can decide which agents are allowed to touch what. Data warehouses are hiring those agents to live closer to the data. Courts are dragging 20 million “private” model interactions into discovery and treating them as evidence, not exhaust.
None of this looks like a flashy app launch. It shows up as interconnects, permissions, logging, and contracts. But taken together, it marks a shift. The interesting action is no longer in the chat window. It is in the routing tables that decide which model you hit, the policy engines that decide whether your agent is allowed to act, and the audit trails that decide who gets blamed when something goes wrong.
Everyone is fighting for the same thing. The layer that quietly decides what is possible, what is easy, and what never even shows up …
