MCP’s New Roadmap Makes Agent Identity an Enterprise Architecture Concern

Why MCP’s agent identity and enterprise-security roadmap matters for Enterprise Architecture, AI governance, repositories and EA tool selection.

In this analysis

• What has shipped—and what remains a roadmap
• The control boundary is moving from users to workloads
• TRACE adds an evidence plane—but it is still a preview
• A practical EA control model for enterprise agents
• What this changes for EA tool buyers
• Update — 5 September 2026: a hyperscaler ships the governed-catalog pattern
• Update — 17 September 2026: the enforcement layer arrives, unverified
• What should architecture leaders do next?

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MCP’s New Roadmap Makes Agent Identity an Enterprise Architecture Concern — Vantograph