Immediately, I’m excited to announce that Cisco is donating Venture CodeGuard to the Coalition for Safe AI (CoSAI). We collectively acknowledge that securing AI-generated code is a problem that belongs to your entire business, and that open collaboration is the trail ahead.
Our Journey with Venture CodeGuard
Once we first open–sourced Venture CodeGuard in October 2025, our objective was clear: make safe AI coding the default, not an afterthought. AI coding brokers had reworked how our groups construct software program, however we noticed firsthand how shortly vulnerabilities could possibly be launched (e.g. hardcoded secrets and techniques, weak cryptography, lacking enter validation, and extra).
Venture CodeGuard was our reply. We constructed a model-agnostic framework that embeds safety guidelines immediately into AI coding workflows. Moderately than catching vulnerabilities after code is written, the framework guides AI coding brokers to generate safe code from the beginning. Nonetheless, Venture CodeGuard can be very highly effective for code overview and remediation.
The response from the group exceeded our expectations. Organizations throughout industries acknowledged the identical challenges we confronted and noticed Venture CodeGuard as a sensible answer.
The Subsequent Chapter
Cisco has been an lively contributor to CoSAI since its founding. We imagine deeply in CoSAI’s mission to advance AI safety via business collaboration. Donating Venture CodeGuard to CoSAI is a pure extension of that dedication.
What This Means for Adopters
If you’re already utilizing Venture CodeGuard, nothing modifications instantly. The framework stays absolutely accessible, and present integrations will proceed to work. What modifications is the mission’s future trajectory.
Main AI organizations reminiscent of Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are lively members and leaders within the CoSAI group. They are going to proceed to contribute to the mission and assist it evolve. We may even collectively assist promote the mission and lift consciousness concerning the significance of safe AI coding.
Cisco’s Continued Dedication
Donating Venture CodeGuard doesn’t imply Cisco is stepping away. We stay deeply dedicated to the mission’s success. We’ve devoted safety and AI engineers that may proceed contributing agent expertise, guidelines, translators, and enhancements.
We’ve been making use of Venture CodeGuard internally throughout the Cisco ecosystem with nice success. We’ll collaborate with CoSAI members to develop the framework’s capabilities. This donation is an funding within the mission’s long-term success.
The Larger Image
Venture CodeGuard is one piece of Cisco’s broader dedication to AI safety. We proceed to develop and contribute open-source instruments just like the MCP Scanner, A2A Scanner, and Agent Expertise Scanner for securing the AI agent provide chain.
Study extra about Venture CodeGuard at project-codeguard.org. For details about Cisco’s AI safety initiatives, go to our AI safety weblog. To be taught extra concerning the Coalition for Safe AI, go to coalitionforsecureai.org.
Get Concerned! Entry the framework at CoSAI’s Venture CodeGuard GitHub repository and contribute to the mission. Collectively, we are able to make safe AI generated code the usual, not the exception.
