Built-in agent harnesses, deny-by-default security

Integrated directly into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the updated Tanzu Platform features an “AI-ready” data infrastructure, Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division, explained during a briefing. Structured and unstructured data can be processed within a customer’s private cloud, and remain in that environment, and multimodal data ingestion, parsing, and semantic layering give agents context.

Builders also get an out-of-the-box developer harness featuring pre-approved skills, step-by-step buildpacks, persistent memory capabilities, and customizable human-in-the-loop controls. Enterprises can provision an agent either with a single click or via a command line interface (CLI), Padmanabhan said.

A curated marketplace serves as a centralized catalog where developers can access vetted AI models, data products, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, she said. The platform supports VCF models, public cloud, and other specialized models, as well as Python and Java frameworks.