<p>This episode of <strong>Ship It Weekly</strong> is about AI agents moving from helpful coding assistants into real operational actors. Brian covers GitHub making Copilot cloud agent tasks available through a REST API, Auth0 bringing authentication and authorization to MCP servers, Red Hat positioning Ansible as a trusted execution layer for agentic IT operations, and OpenAI Daybreak pushing AI deeper into security research and remediation.</p><p>The bigger thread this week is authority: what these agents can reach, what they can change, who approved the action, and who owns the outcome when something breaks.</p><p>Brian also covers Discord’s ScyllaDB automation work, AWS GuardDuty crypto mining detection, queues and back pressure, and a Datadog PostgreSQL case where an index scan was still painfully slow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Sponsored by Guardsquare </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://hubs.ly/Q04fJgkJ0"><strong>https://hubs.ly/Q04fJgkJ0</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p>GitHub Copilot cloud agent tasks via REST API <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-13-start-copilot-cloud-agent-tasks-via-the-rest-api/">https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-13-start-copilot-cloud-agent-tasks-via-the-rest-api/</a></p><p>GitHub REST API endpoints for agent tasks <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.github.com/en/rest/agent-tasks/agent-tasks">https://docs.github.com/en/rest/agent-tasks/agent-tasks</a></p><p>Auth0 Auth for MCP is now generally available <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-auth-for-mcp-servers-generally-available/">https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-auth-for-mcp-servers-generally-available/</a></p><p>Red Hat on Ansible as the execution layer for agentic IT <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-establishes-ansible-automation-platform-trusted-execution-layer-it-operations-agentic-era">https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-establishes-ansible-automation-platform-trusted-execution-layer-it-operations-agentic-era</a></p><p>OpenAI Daybreak <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://openai.com/daybreak/">https://openai.com/daybreak/</a></p><p>Discord automates ScyllaDB clusters at scale <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-automates-scylladb-clusters-at-scale">https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-automates-scylladb-clusters-at-scale</a></p><p>AWS GuardDuty crypto mining detection and prevention <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/detecting-and-preventing-crypto-mining-in-your-aws-environment/">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/detecting-and-preventing-crypto-mining-in-your-aws-environment/</a></p><p>Queues do not absorb load, they delay failure <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dzone.com/articles/queues-dont-absorb-load-they-delay-bankruptcy">https://dzone.com/articles/queues-dont-absorb-load-they-delay-bankruptcy</a></p><p>Datadog on inefficient PostgreSQL index scans <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/detect-inefficient-index-scans-with-dbm/">https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/detect-inefficient-index-scans-with-dbm/</a></p><p>This week’s On Call Brief <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief/2026-W20/">https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief/2026-W20/</a></p><p>More episodes and show notes <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shipitweekly.fm/">https://shipitweekly.fm/</a></p>