--- title: How to Control AI Assets Before They Become Shadow AI description: JFrog's Agent Guard addresses the growing security risk of unreviewed AI assets — MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins — used by coding agents like Claude... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-control-ai-assets-before-they-become-shadow-ai-2kdicnmrk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Control AI Assets Before They Become Shadow AI | daily.dev og:description: JFrog's Agent Guard addresses the growing security risk of unreviewed AI assets — MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins — used by coding agents like Claude... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-control-ai-assets-before-they-become-shadow-ai-2kdicnmrk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2KdicNMrK.png og:image:alt: How to Control AI Assets Before They Become Shadow AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Control AI Assets Before They Become Shadow AI **[JFrog](https://daily.dev/sources/jfrog)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JFrog's Agent Guard addresses the growing security risk of unreviewed AI assets — MCP servers, agent skills, and plugins — used by coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor. It enforces governance through three layers: an approved-only proxy routing traffic through JFrog Artifactory, an enforcement hook inside VS Code and Cursor that blocks unapproved MCP tool calls, and MDM lockdown via Jamf/Intune/Kandji to prevent developers from disabling controls. All AI assets live alongside existing Docker images and npm packages in Artifactory under one RBAC model, with full audit logging. Support for agent skills and plugins is planned alongside the currently available MCP server enforcement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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