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Graphify: AST-Based Knowledge Graphs for Agent Code Navigation

Graphify: AST-Based Knowledge Graphs for Agent Code Navigation

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Charts as Epistemic Actions: Why Data Agents Need Visual Reasoning, Not Just Text Loops

Charts as Epistemic Actions: Why Data Agents Need Visual Reasoning, Not Just Text Loops

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Battle Drones: What 12 Iterations of 'Make It More Fun' Reveals About Agent-Driven Game Development

Battle Drones: What 12 Iterations of 'Make It More Fun' Reveals About Agent-Driven Game Development

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AWS Agent Registry: How Runtime Tool Discovery Replaces Hardcoded Agent Wiring

AWS Agent Registry: How Runtime Tool Discovery Replaces Hardcoded Agent Wiring

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n8n Guardian Gates: How Approval Workflows Prevent Agents from Sending the Wrong Invoice

n8n Guardian Gates: How Approval Workflows Prevent Agents from Sending the Wrong Invoice

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Toolflation: How Seller Agents Game Tool Marketplaces Through Spontaneous SEO

Toolflation: How Seller Agents Game Tool Marketplaces Through Spontaneous SEO

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Airflow AI Provider 1.0: Agents, Sandboxes, and Human Approval in Production DAGs

Airflow AI Provider 1.0: Agents, Sandboxes, and Human Approval in Production DAGs

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AI Agent Swarm Self-Organization: Security Lessons from Teleport's CTF Experiment

AI Agent Swarm Self-Organization: Security Lessons from Teleport's CTF Experiment

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Kronos: Foundation Model for Financial Candlesticks

Kronos: Foundation Model for Financial Candlesticks

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Teaching GitHub Copilot About Your Codebase: What Custom Instructions, Skills, and MCP Servers Reveal About Agent Context Management

Teaching GitHub Copilot About Your Codebase: What Custom Instructions, Skills, and MCP Servers Reveal About Agent Context Management

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The Art of Swarming: Autonomous Agent Swarm Architecture

The Art of Swarming: Autonomous Agent Swarm Architecture

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SIT-Eval: How Situation-Based Turn-by-Turn Evaluation Exposes the Plumbing Gaps in Conversational Agent Benchmarks

SIT-Eval: How Situation-Based Turn-by-Turn Evaluation Exposes the Plumbing Gaps in Conversational Agent Benchmarks

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RepoPilot: How an AWS Lambda Agent Scores GitHub Repos Before You Clone Them

RepoPilot: How an AWS Lambda Agent Scores GitHub Repos Before You Clone Them

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Celorga: Org-Mode as Agent Orchestration Infrastructure

Celorga: Org-Mode as Agent Orchestration Infrastructure

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The Thin Orchestrator: How Meta Routes Agent Work Without Overloading the Router

The Thin Orchestrator: How Meta Routes Agent Work Without Overloading the Router

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Spending Caps as Agent Authorization: How to Stop Autonomous Coding Agents from Draining Your Cloud Budget

Spending Caps as Agent Authorization: How to Stop Autonomous Coding Agents from Draining Your Cloud Budget

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LaTeX in the Fragment Hash: How Simon Willison Built a Stateless Document Renderer That Stores Everything in the URL

LaTeX in the Fragment Hash: How Simon Willison Built a Stateless Document Renderer That Stores Everything in the URL

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KnowGPO: Knowledge-Grouped Credit Assignment for Search Agents

KnowGPO: Knowledge-Grouped Credit Assignment for Search Agents

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The Bug Is in the Arrangement: How Tool Composition Creates Data-Leak Paths in AI Agents

The Bug Is in the Arrangement: How Tool Composition Creates Data-Leak Paths in AI Agents

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AWS Trust in Depth: Five Layers for Agent Autonomy Without Losing Control

AWS Trust in Depth: Five Layers for Agent Autonomy Without Losing Control

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Solid Queue 1.6.0 Fiber Workers: How Rails Turned Concurrency Primitives into Agent Job Orchestration

Solid Queue 1.6.0 Fiber Workers: How Rails Turned Concurrency Primitives into Agent Job Orchestration

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Nono: Kernel-Enforced Security Boundaries for AI Agent Runtime Isolation

Nono: Kernel-Enforced Security Boundaries for AI Agent Runtime Isolation

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Tencent's Amap Probe: Why Agent Evals Need Network Egress Controls Before They Hit Production APIs

Tencent's Amap Probe: Why Agent Evals Need Network Egress Controls Before They Hit Production APIs

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Sequential Auctions for Multi-Agent LLM Workflows: How Market Mechanisms Replace Centralized Orchestration

Sequential Auctions for Multi-Agent LLM Workflows: How Market Mechanisms Replace Centralized Orchestration

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's Nine-Stage Eval Framework: How AWS Catches Silent Agent Quality Regressions Before Production

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's Nine-Stage Eval Framework: How AWS Catches Silent Agent Quality Regressions Before Production

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InboxWall: How a Local-First MCP Server Sanitizes Email HTML to Stop Prompt Injection Before the LLM Sees It

InboxWall: How a Local-First MCP Server Sanitizes Email HTML to Stop Prompt Injection Before the LLM Sees It

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Time-Blocking Automation: What Akiflow Exposes About Agent Scheduling Primitives

Time-Blocking Automation: What Akiflow Exposes About Agent Scheduling Primitives

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Anthropic's 100 Overcharge Bug: What Internationalization Failures Reveal About Agent Payment Pipelines

Anthropic's 100 Overcharge Bug: What Internationalization Failures Reveal About Agent Payment Pipelines

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Scientific Agent Skills: How 177 Validated Tools Turn Any Agent Into a Lab Scientist

Scientific Agent Skills: How 177 Validated Tools Turn Any Agent Into a Lab Scientist

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Four Gemini Agents Beat Minecraft: What Multi-Agent Coordination in a Sandbox World Reveals About Shared Memory and Role Emergence

Four Gemini Agents Beat Minecraft: What Multi-Agent Coordination in a Sandbox World Reveals About Shared Memory and Role Emergence

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Tamnoon's Agentic Cloud Remediation: How Auto-Fix Agents Navigate the Gap Between Detection and Safe Production Changes

Tamnoon's Agentic Cloud Remediation: How Auto-Fix Agents Navigate the Gap Between Detection and Safe Production Changes

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Stoke Money's Cash Flow Forecast Engine: How Real-Time Financial Projections Replace Static Budget Categories

Stoke Money's Cash Flow Forecast Engine: How Real-Time Financial Projections Replace Static Budget Categories

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GitHub Actions Workflow Lockfiles: How Pinned Action Versions Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks in CI/CD Pipelines

GitHub Actions Workflow Lockfiles: How Pinned Action Versions Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks in CI/CD Pipelines

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OpenViking's Self-Evolving Context Database: How Agent Memory, RAG, and Skills Unify Under One Storage Layer

OpenViking's Self-Evolving Context Database: How Agent Memory, RAG, and Skills Unify Under One Storage Layer

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VSCan: What Scanning Malicious VSCode Extensions Reveals About Agent Tool Privilege Boundaries

VSCan: What Scanning Malicious VSCode Extensions Reveals About Agent Tool Privilege Boundaries

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First-Price Auctions for Agent Prompt Routing: How Agentic Markets Price Inference Costs Against Expected Reward

First-Price Auctions for Agent Prompt Routing: How Agentic Markets Price Inference Costs Against Expected Reward

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Anthropic's Official Plugin Directory: What Immutable Slugs and Auto-Migration Teach About Agent Tool Versioning

Anthropic's Official Plugin Directory: What Immutable Slugs and Auto-Migration Teach About Agent Tool Versioning

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Scion: How Anthropic Replaced Git with Centralized Source Control for 30,000 Agent-Generated Commits Per Day

Scion: How Anthropic Replaced Git with Centralized Source Control for 30,000 Agent-Generated Commits Per Day

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MovingLake's Bidirectional Connectors: How Real-Time ETL Agents Skip the Data Warehouse

MovingLake's Bidirectional Connectors: How Real-Time ETL Agents Skip the Data Warehouse

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AI Agent Containment Failures: The Missing Security Primitives

AI Agent Containment Failures: The Missing Security Primitives

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CLI-Anything: How Auto-Generated Command-Line Wrappers Turn Any Software Into Agent-Native Tools

CLI-Anything: How Auto-Generated Command-Line Wrappers Turn Any Software Into Agent-Native Tools

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Anchor Browser + AgentCore Payments: How AWS Agents Pay for x402-Protected APIs Without Exposing Wallet Keys

Anchor Browser + AgentCore Payments: How AWS Agents Pay for x402-Protected APIs Without Exposing Wallet Keys

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The Offscreen Mailbox Attack: What 33 Agent Messages Reveal About Context Window Boundaries and Prompt Injection

The Offscreen Mailbox Attack: What 33 Agent Messages Reveal About Context Window Boundaries and Prompt Injection

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Dense Progress Rewards for Long-Horizon Agents: How Tev Turns Multi-Day Tasks Into Trainable Checkpoints

Dense Progress Rewards for Long-Horizon Agents: How Tev Turns Multi-Day Tasks Into Trainable Checkpoints

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SGLang's Agentic Workload Optimization: How a 37K-Star Inference Framework Handles RL Rollouts and Multi-Turn Agent Sessions

SGLang's Agentic Workload Optimization: How a 37K-Star Inference Framework Handles RL Rollouts and Multi-Turn Agent Sessions

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Cloudflare's Agentic Security Ops: Separating Evidence from Inference

Cloudflare's Agentic Security Ops: Separating Evidence from Inference

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MissionFlows vs. Workflows: How Adaptive Agent Execution Replaces Static DAGs

MissionFlows vs. Workflows: How Adaptive Agent Execution Replaces Static DAGs

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0sql: How a Semantic-to-SQL Engine Adds Determinism and Security to Agent-Driven Queries

0sql: How a Semantic-to-SQL Engine Adds Determinism and Security to Agent-Driven Queries

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Supabase MCP Server: How Backend-as-a-Service Becomes Agent-as-a-Service

Supabase MCP Server: How Backend-as-a-Service Becomes Agent-as-a-Service

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Billion-Context: How 5x Token Compression Lets 100K-Window Agents Handle Month-Long Sessions

Billion-Context: How 5x Token Compression Lets 100K-Window Agents Handle Month-Long Sessions

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X-AgentRed: How Red-Teaming Multi-Service Agent Ecosystems Exposes Compositional Security Failures

X-AgentRed: How Red-Teaming Multi-Service Agent Ecosystems Exposes Compositional Security Failures

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Agent37's $0.37/Month Sandbox: What Low-Cost Agent Isolation Reveals About Deployment Economics

Agent37's $0.37/Month Sandbox: What Low-Cost Agent Isolation Reveals About Deployment Economics

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Orion AI: How Cornerstone OnDemand Cut Database Diagnosis by 78% with a Three-Agent System on Amazon Bedrock

Orion AI: How Cornerstone OnDemand Cut Database Diagnosis by 78% with a Three-Agent System on Amazon Bedrock

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Artex AI Bank Attacks: What Agent-Driven Cyberattacks Reveal About Tool Execution Boundaries

Artex AI Bank Attacks: What Agent-Driven Cyberattacks Reveal About Tool Execution Boundaries

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Flow Matching for Image Agents: Moving Beyond Diffusion for In-Context Visual Editing

Flow Matching for Image Agents: Moving Beyond Diffusion for In-Context Visual Editing

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Epistemic Humility in Agent Evals: What Happens When Retrieved Evidence Contradicts the Model's Prior Beliefs

Epistemic Humility in Agent Evals: What Happens When Retrieved Evidence Contradicts the Model's Prior Beliefs

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Nao: Context Engineering for Analytics Agents

Nao: Context Engineering for Analytics Agents

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The Crash Test Nobody Runs: What Exactly-Once Semantics Mean for AI Workflow Engines Like n8n

The Crash Test Nobody Runs: What Exactly-Once Semantics Mean for AI Workflow Engines Like n8n

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Six Controls from Nine AI Agent Incidents

Six Controls from Nine AI Agent Incidents

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Computer-Use Agents and MCP: What Agent-to-Agent Commerce Reveals About Protocol Boundaries

Computer-Use Agents and MCP: What Agent-to-Agent Commerce Reveals About Protocol Boundaries

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