The Agent Runtime Problem: Why Companies Need Unified Control Planes

As AI teams deploy agents across multiple platforms—Claude Managed Agents, AWS Bedrock, Cursor, and custom runtimes—runtime fragmentation has emerged as a critical infrastructure challenge of 2026. Different platforms mean different APIs, cost models, and governance approaches, making centralized discovery and control impossible. The emerging solution is a unified control plane that abstracts underlying runtime differences and enables teams to discover, govern, and observe all agents from a single interface.