Reports · 2026 Edition
The Egress Report
Where the work goes while the agent works, and what leaves with it.
Most agent work runs in someone else's data center, and the counter that matters is bytes out. We ran twenty ordinary knowledge-work tasks three ways, with a network capture around every run, and printed what left.
From the report
- 96%
- of organizations surveyed run agents in production.Guild survey, n=362, August 2026
- 40%
- log what their agents do at runtime.Guild survey, n=362, August 2026
- 69%
- have no automated way to stop an agent.Guild survey, n=362, August 2026
Rev A prints the ledger on sheet V as preliminary layout data. The measured figures replace it in the next revision, and this page will say so when they land.
8 sheets
- IThe work left the desk, and nobody watched it go.
- IINinety-six percent in production, in someone else's data center.
- IIIConfidence is high, coverage is partial.
- IVEveryone has logs, almost nobody has evidence.
- VTwenty tasks, three ways of running them, bytes out beside work done.
- VIOne hull, three decks.
- VIIFive instruments, none of them a dashboard.
- VIIIHow the ledger was taken, and how to ask for one.
Every figure carries its source in the claims register at the back.
Inside
