Context Assembly for Multi-Tenant Agent Memory: Budgets, Selection, and Tool Calls with MCP
Context assembly builds the agent's prompt from memory under versioned rules, and it records every rendered memory the model saw. Companion notebook…
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Build Your First GitHub Copilot Custom Agent: A Practical LoadRunner Example
Creating Custom Agents in GitHub Copilot A good Copilot conversation can solve a one-off problem. A custom agent turns that conversation into a repe…
Open Source Alternative to Claude Code and Cursor: Meet Cline
Cline is an open source, autonomous coding agent. Instead of just autocompleting the line you're typing, Cline can read your entire project, plan ou…
Claude Code Skills Worth Trying: From Vague Idea to Finished Feature
I’ve tried out a lot of Claude Code skills, and a few of them are especially useful when you combine them into a workflow. Not because they magicall…
How to Add a Verification Loop to Your AI Agent in 30 Minutes
AI agent loops can produce an output, run some checks and move on without establishing that the result actually satisfies the task. The problem gets…
World Models: The AI That Learned to Dream Before It Could Walk
Big Ideas in AI — Part 01 Inside the race to build machines that can imagine the future, and what is still stopping them Press enter or click to vie…
The Grilling Pattern: Clarify Requirements Before They Become Code
A requirement such as “improve the approval overview” may look clear at first glance. Yet important implementation questions remain: Who should see…
Build with Gemini Event Review: Developing AI Agents with ADK and Agents CLI
I recently attended Build with Gemini Tokyo , a two-day event hosted by Google. https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/build-with-gemini26q3 The e…
Agent Toolkit for AWS in Practice (1) - Claude Code
Part 1 of the series "Agent Toolkit for AWS in Practice." Agent Toolkit for AWS gives your coding agent two things it normally lacks: curated knowle…
Smashing the MCP + Skill Tradeoff: More Guidance, Better Agents?
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview I've been working on a Tokyo public transit M…
Skills Sprawl: When Too Much of a Good Thing Confuses Your AI Agent
Introduction In this post, we’re going to look at the problem of Skills Sprawl . What happens if you have too many skills? We’ll understand LLM deci…
The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses
Every agent harness solves the same two problems, and almost every one of them solves both privately. The first problem is decomposition. A task arr…
From Clicks to Documentation: Converting D365 Task Recordings into L4 Guides
Intro : Documenting business processes in Dynamics 365 can be time-consuming. Functional consultants and process owners often need to turn Task Reco…
Model Routing Made My AI Agents Cheaper. It Didn't Make Them Easier to Trust.
I spent a while optimizing what my AI agents cost to run. Cheap models for routine work. Better models when the task actually needed them. That made…
LoopX: A Control Plane for AI Agents That Have to Keep Working for Days
If you have ever pointed a coding agent at a multi-day goal, you know the failure mode. It is not that the model writes a bad function. It is that o…
Test smarter with Snagly: 30 open-source QA skills for AI coding agents
If you've experimented with AI-driven testing, you've probably lived this cycle: you ask an AI agent to "test the checkout flow," and it does someth…
Qwen3.8-Max Just Went GA: A Developer's Guide to Alibaba's 2.4T Model
Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max generally available on August 3, 2026 . This is a practical rundown for developers: what the model is, what it costs, how t…
Behind the scenes: How we build, test, and scale Google Agent Skills
AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google Agent Skills , our goal was simple: encode Google…
Resolve Open Questions: a /qa Skill for Claude Code
By @atwellpub , GBTI Network Member . Originally published on gbti.network . Claude Code loads any markdown file at .claude/skills/<name>/SKIL…
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 an…
Build a Support Copilot That Loads the Runbook Before It Calls a Tool
An AI support demo can look finished after it answers one question and calls one API. The production tension appears later: the model has instructio…
garden-skills packages taste and process for AI coding agents
ConardLi's garden-skills makes a specific bet: what holds AI coding agents back is not raw capability but taste and process discipline. Each skill i…
How to structure CLAUDE.md, Skills and Agents
Hi friends Here's a tip for when you're setting up Claude Code (or any coding agent) in a real codebase, this came in clutch for me when I discovere…
AgentScaffold: Memory, Peer Review, and Continuous Improvement for AI Coding Agents
An AI coding agent will never tell you it's guessing. It doesn't hedge before a wrong answer, doesn't slow down when it's about to break something t…
Why Your AI Agent's Biggest Vulnerability Isn't a Missing Firewall
(initially published at https://www.humanbound.ai/blog/why-your-ai-agents-biggest-vulnerability-isnt-a-missing-firewall ) Three incidents, one root…
Prose in the Control Plane: Why AI Agent Frameworks Are Not Engineering (Yet)
Skill frameworks for AI coding agents are exploding in popularity. As of July 2026, Superpowers has roughly 256,000 GitHub stars, Matt Pocock's skil…
Superpowers vs Agent Skills vs Pocock: Three Philosophies of AI Coding Workflows
Every few months, a new framework appears promising to make AI coding agents write better code. Three have risen above the noise in 2025 and 2026: S…
How I Built an AI Review Skill That Refuses to Ship Bad Work
How I Built an AI Review Skill That Refuses to Ship Bad Work The fastest way to create AI slop is not to use a bad model. It is to accept a polished…
From First-Run Drop-Off to First Useful Agent Run
I keep coming back to the same onboarding question: what happens in the first 10 minutes? For agent tools, that window is brutal. A developer opens…
Teaching AI Agents to Time-Travel: Building a Temporal Debugging Skill
Your AI agent is confident. It points to line 42 of PaymentService.java . "There's your null pointer exception." You check. Line 42 is a comment. Th…