Google Cloud launches IAM Helper to let agents automate IAM workflows securely

[Google Cloud] Google Cloud on October 26 introduced IAM Helper, a suite of intelligent, agent-facing building blocks that it said can automate complex, end-to-end IAM workflows. According to Google Cloud, the product acts as an agent-native orchestration and interface layer for Google Cloud IAM, augmenting core IAM engines including Policy Intelligence and Privileged Access Manager (PAM) so that IAM capabilities can be called directly by autonomous code assistants, deployment pipelines and custom agents. Its Agent Skills are packaged using the open Agent Skills standard and work across common agents including Gemini CLI, Gemini Cloud Assist, ADK, Claude Code and Cursor, Google Cloud said. The company said built-in guardrails separate read-only discovery from policy changes: diagnostics and simulations run automatically, while changes to access policies pause for human-in-the-loop confirmation based on customizable risk tiers.