AI coding assistants generate code faster than security reviews can keep up. The Datadog Code Security MCP server addresses this by running SAST, SCA, secrets detection, IaC scanning, and SBOM generation as a local MCP server plugged directly into your AI coding assistant of choice.

The practical upshot: when an agent scaffolds an endpoint with a SQL injection, imports a dependency with a known CVE, or hardcodes a credential in a config file, the MCP catches it in the same turn, before the code ever reaches a pull request. One auth flow, auto-updating rules, no context switching.

This talk covers how the tool works, where it fits in an agentic development loop, and what classes of vulnerabilities AI-generated code tends to introduce that make this kind of inline scanning worth caring about.