How to Audit Hidden Reminders and Context Usage in Claude Code Logs
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AI Coding Agent Cost Ledger: Find Expensive Sessions Before They Become Normal
A coding agent can look productive while quietly turning every pull request into a mystery invoice. The dangerous part is not one large model call. It…
How to Turn Trip Photos and Metadata into a Self-Contained HTML Story
How to Turn Trip Photos and Metadata into a Self-Contained HTML Story — Agent Lab Journal Agent Lab Journal Guides Glossary Practical guide · beginner…
Quality Isn't Accidental — Maker/Checker Separation and Automated Validation
The Core Argument : AI agent reliability isn't achieved by "making the agent smarter" — it's achieved by the simple engineering principle of separatin…
Why Agent Evaluation Is Harder Than Model Evaluation
I did not get to this opinion from a whitepaper. I got to it because I am building an open-source project around the problem, and the build keeps argu…
AI Daily Digest — August 1, 2026: ARC-AGI-3 Harness Discovery, EU AI Gigafactories, Devin SWE-1.7
🤖💻 AI Daily Digest — August 1, 2026 OpenAI Shows How Two Harness Settings Tripled ARC-AGI-3 Scores OpenAI published a rare technical deep-dive on July…
Google ADK as the Master Agent, Calling Amazon Bedrock over A2A
This is the third run of the same cross-cloud currency benchmark, and the first with the arrow pointing the other way. A Google ADK master on Cloud Ru…
Google ADK Cross Cloud to Amazon Bedrock over A2A
This is the third run of the same cross-cloud currency benchmark, and the first with the arrow pointing the other way. A Google ADK master on Cloud Ru…
Turning a Tiny Language Model Into a Trustworthy Agent: An R&D Experiment with HUQAN + OPT-125M
Small language models are attractive because they're cheap and fast. The problem is hallucination — and specifically, what happens when a model gets s…
HUQAN: The Deterministic Trust Layer That Tells AI Agents "Wait, I Decide First"
We gave agents tools — but who gets to say "no"? Over the last year or two, the agent ecosystem has grown incredibly fast: LLM-based agents that touch…
Your AI Agent Shouldn’t Have to Read an Entire Website Just to Click a Button
Imagine entering a restaurant where there is no menu. To order lunch, you must walk into the kitchen, inspect every shelf, understand how the applianc…
Hardening an AI coding agent: the failures, and the code that fixed them
At Univoco we build retrieval-augmented assistants over a customer's own documentation. One of them is a coding agent that writes code for a proprieta…
How to Test an AI Agent Before Giving It Access to Your Files
How to Test an AI Agent Before Giving It Access to Your Files AI agent demos usually show the happy path: a prompt goes in, a polished result comes ou…
How I Use Codex to Build Applications Without Losing Control
In 2026, there is a great deal of discussion around Agentic Coding . Every week, a new framework, orchestrator, or multi-agent system appears. To anyo…
Do unused MCP tools cost you money?
A short case study from my "building and testing MCP agents" series — it stands on its own, but the method behind it is laid out in https://dev.to/lan…
How to Test AI Agents Without Calling More LLMs
AI-agent testing often starts with an expensive loop: call the agent, send its answer to another model, ask for a quality score, and hope the score is…
Trace digests for LLM monitoring, at 1/30th the price of Sonnet
We run one LLM call on every agent trace we ingest: it reduces the trace to a short, searchable digest. Because it runs on every trace from every cust…
Why Your AI Agents Need Finite State Machines: Building Deterministic Workflows in a Vibe-Coding World
Originally published on tamiz.pro . The rise of "vibe coding" has democratized software development, allowing developers to build complex applications…
What agents learned in Synthetics' Last Cradle
On July 29, 2026, five OpenClaw agents sat down at Synthetics' Last Cradle and played for five hours and twenty-one minutes without a human in the loo…
The Parameters That Actually Matter When You're Tuning an AI Agent
Part 2 of 3 — building and testing MCP agents Every AI agent is a bundle of decisions, most of which get made once, informally, and never revisited: w…
AI Consent Ledger: Stop Voice Agents From Ignoring Revoked Permission
A voice agent can sound polished, respond instantly, and still create a trust incident in one sentence: “Stop calling me.” If that request only update…
Stop writing glue code for telephony APIs
I've spent enough time in the trenches of software engineering to know that there is nothing more soul-crushing than writing 'glue code.' You know exa…
How to Audit Your MCP Servers for Security Risks
TL;DR: MCP servers run with significant privileges inside AI agent pipelines, and most teams ship them without any security review. mcp-security-scan …
One TPU Chip, Eight Agents: Serving Small Agent Workloads with Raw JAX
Cloud TPU v6e-1 ( ct6e-standard-1t , one v6e chip, 32 GB HBM), GCE flex-start, europe-west4-a. vLLM baseline measured 2026-07-21. The workload nobody …
Amazon Bedrock Agents Orchestrating Google ADK over A2A
This article explains how to build and test a cross-cloud currency agent. An Amazon Bedrock master agent , built with Strands Agents and hosted on Ama…
Amazon Bedrock Agents Orchestrating Google ADK over A2A
This article explains how to build and test a cross-cloud currency agent. An Amazon Bedrock master agent , built with Strands Agents and hosted on Ama…
MCP Agents, Explained: What Actually Makes an LLM an "Agent"
Part 1 of 3 — building and testing MCP agents "Agent" has become one of those words that means everything and nothing. So let's ground it. On its own,…
Why My Local Coding Agent Could Act but Couldn't Finish
There was a month where I blew through my token budget without noticing. Claude Code and Codex, running most of the day, on a codebase I was exploring…
Building a Public Backlog of AI Agent Failures: What's the Worst Thing Your Tests Didn't Catch?
Not looking for a highlight reel of prompt injection screenshots, more interested in the mundane stuff: the agent that called the wrong tool with conf…
Run Hermes Fully Locally with QVAC
Run Hermes Fully Locally with QVAC | Agent Lab Journal AL Agent Lab Journal Guides Glossary LOCAL AI AGENTS · PRACTICAL DEPLOYMENT Run Hermes Fully Lo…