In an era where software vulnerabilities accumulate faster than human teams can address them, Google has introduced CodeMender — an AI agent that takes on the grinding work of scanning code, verifying real-world risk, and drafting fixes for human approval. Released through its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the tool reflects a deepening recognition that the pace of modern software development has outrun the capacity of manual security review. The gap between discovering a flaw and closing it has long been measured in weeks; CodeMender is designed to compress that window without removing the