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Data-Layer Proxy vs Context-Aware Proxy: Which Do You Need?

calendar_today September 16, 2026 domain pomerium

An AI agent needs to read from your production database. Something has to stand between them. The market offers two architecturally distinct answers to that requirement, and the difference between a data-layer proxy and an context-aware proxy determines which failures you can actually prevent.

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