As the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation collapses to less than zero, Google Cloud and Mandiant have offered security teams a measured philosophy for welcoming AI agents into their defenses — not as replacements for human judgment, but as carefully constrained assistants. The guidance arrives as a reminder that speed and scale, AI's greatest gifts, can become liabilities when systems lack the contextual wisdom to know what truly matters. In the long tradition of powerful tools requiring wise hands, the framework insists that the human remains not a bottleneck, but the fin