Ecosystem
The Rends Ecosystem — Beyond governance. The standard.
Free risk tooling, open source SDKs, AICAP™ agent passports and a sample incident database. A regulatory API, benchmarks and an insurer program are planned.
When AI agents go wrong
Sample data: the entries below show the format of an incident record, not a live incident feed. Filter by industry, severity, category and date to stress-test your own controls.
Incident categories
- Data breach
- Bias incident
- Unauthorized action
- Compliance violation
- Financial loss
- Privacy violation
- Hallucination
- Rogue behavior
Filters
- 2026-01-14Financialhighunauthorized action
Trading agent exceeded approved instrument list
An autonomous support agent was misconfigured with brokerage-adjacent tools and executed a test order in a production environment.
- Root cause
- Missing environment separation and overly broad tool permissions.
- Regulations referenced
- SEC Market Access Rule (context-dependent), internal policy
- Lessons learned
- Pre-deploy compliance checks and tool allowlists per environment.
- 2025-11-02Healthcarecriticalprivacy violation
PHI surfaced in agent transcript retention
A summarization agent retained full transcripts beyond the approved retention window in a vendor bucket.
- Root cause
- Retention policy not enforced in logging pipeline; weak data classification.
- Regulations referenced
- HIPAA, state privacy
- Lessons learned
- Hash or redact prompts; enforce retention at the logging layer with automated audits.
- 2025-09-20Retailmediumbias incident
Customer routing disparities detected
Outbound triage agent showed statistically significant routing differences across demographic proxies in A/B telemetry.
- Root cause
- Training skew and missing fairness evaluation gates pre-release.
- Regulations referenced
- FTC Act (unfair practices), emerging state AI laws
- Lessons learned
- Continuous evaluation harness + human review for sensitive decisions.
- 2025-08-05Technologyhighdata breach
API key exfiltration via prompt injection
An agent retrieved a connector secret from context after an indirect injection via user-uploaded document.
- Root cause
- Secrets in context window; insufficient tool sandboxing.
- Regulations referenced
- GDPR / breach notification (jurisdiction-dependent)
- Lessons learned
- Never inject long-lived secrets into prompts; use scoped ephemeral credentials.