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Why reskill · the receipts

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The argument next door rests on two things a reader is entitled to verify: what the people paying for this say they are worried about, and what vendors have actually put into production. Both are below, with their sources.

Nothing on this page is our measurement. The survey is cited under its own figures; every product row carries the vendor page it came from.

What the buyers say

The worry is already in the room

Security and risk lead the concern list, and readiness sits right behind them. The second one is the reskilling problem, named by the people who would have to pay for it.

What 1,528 leaders fear most

Security & risk0%
Culture & readiness0%
Unpredictable outputsThe gap0%
Financial & competitive0%
Technology0%

Base: 1,528 AI decision-makers who have concerns about AI usage. Source: Forrester's State of AI Survey, 2025.

What the vendors shipped

Every product, with the page that proves it

Every dot below is a task that used to belong to a person, inside a product you can buy today.

Apr 2025Jul 2025Oct 2025Jan 2026Apr 2026GitLabCrowdStrikeMicrosoftPalo Alto NetworksCiscoCursor
Generally availablePreview or announcedTap any dot for the product behind it.

Every dot, with what it absorbs and where to check it

GitLab

Duo Security Analyst Agent

Generally available

Triaging vulnerability findings across scan types, and judging severity and exploitability.

Beta in GitLab 18.5, generally available in 18.8 · Ultimate, with the Duo add-on

Our read: Augmented · Source

Agentic SAST Vulnerability Resolution

Generally available

Writing the fix. It reasons through the surrounding code and opens the merge request itself.

Beta in GitLab 18.9, generally available in 18.11 · Ultimate

Our read: Augmented · Source

CrowdStrike

Charlotte AI Detection Triage

Generally available

Separating true positives from false ones across the detection queue.

13 February 2025 · The Falcon platform

Our read: Augmented · Source

Microsoft

Phishing Triage Agent, in Defender

Generally available

Reading every user-reported phishing mail, classifying it, and closing the false alarms.

Documentation current at 15 June 2026 · Security Copilot compute units, plus Defender for Office 365 Plan 2

Our read: Augmented · Source

Security Alert Triage Agent

Preview

The same agent, widened to a subset of identity and cloud alerts.

Documentation current at 15 June 2026 · Security Copilot compute units

Our read: Augmented · Source

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex AgentiX, Case Investigation Agent

Generally available

Establishing case context and reading the complex data points that start an investigation.

Platform announced October 2025 · Cortex Cloud and Cortex XSIAM

Our read: Assisted · Source

Cortex AgentiX, Automation Engineer Agent

Generally available

Building the automation. A prompt in plain language becomes the script a playbook runs.

Platform announced October 2025 · Cortex Cloud and Cortex XSIAM

Our read: Augmented · Source

Cisco

Malware Threat Reversing Agent

Generally available

Malware analysis and reverse engineering, which is the deepest specialist work in the room.

Announced 23 March 2026 · The Cisco and Splunk security platform

Our read: Augmented · Source

Triage Agent

Announced

Prioritising threats and triaging the queue.

Announced 23 March 2026, expected June 2026 · The Cisco and Splunk security platform

Our read: Augmented · Source

SOP Agent

Announced

Running the standard operating procedure that a junior analyst is handed on day one.

Announced 23 March 2026, expected April to May 2026 · The Cisco and Splunk security platform

Our read: Augmented · Source

Detection Builder Agent

Announced

Detection engineering: planning and writing the detections themselves.

Announced 23 March 2026, prerelease targeted June 2026 · The Cisco and Splunk security platform

Our read: Augmented · Source

Cursor

Bugbot

Generally available

Reviewing every pull request for logic bugs and security flaws, and proposing the fix.

Usage-based billing announced May 2026 · Cursor Teams and Individual, billed per run

Our read: Augmented · Source

The autonomy column is ours, not theirs. It places each product on our own ladder; no vendor has used these words.

Not one of these is a research preview from a lab. They ship inside commercial platforms, on ordinary release notes, to customers who already had the licence.

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