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Half-lives differ by subject. Pricing rots fastest, protocols slowest. The meter beside each post says which one you're reading and how far through it is.
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Security
AI agents are now a security threat: the PaperCut and RubyGems incidents
In May and August/September 2026, AI agents were used to breach hundreds of organisations in two separate campaigns. What happened, and what it means for agent safety.
half-life 90dfrom 30 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Meta Muse, the Agents API and AIforce: the platform war is now a harness war
In four weeks Meta, OpenAI and Salesforce each started selling the layer around the model: a personal agent on its own VM, the Codex harness as an API, and an enterprise control plane. What shipped, when, and how to stay portable.
half-life 90dfrom 30 Sep 2026
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Models
JEV: what TypeSafe's decision model actually does
A decision model, not a chat model: one typed, calibrated call in 70–500 milliseconds, output tokens free. What it is for, where it breaks, and why agents have already run 8.1 billion tokens through it.
half-life 60dfrom 26 Sep 2026
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Guide
Agentic AI workflows: what they are and how to build one this week
Agentic AI workflows let software make decisions and take action without waiting for you. How they differ from regular automation, and a step-by-step n8n template for building your first one this week.
half-life 90dfrom 21 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
When an agent rewrites its own instructions: /refine, skills and protected files
Prime Agent's /refine and Hermes's learned skills both let an agent change how it works. That is the point, and the risk. How each project limits the damage, and how to review what an agent teaches itself.
half-life 90dfrom 16 Sep 2026
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Models
GPT-6 Astra needs less prompting than you think
OpenAI's guidance for GPT-6 Astra is clear: shorter skills, fewer approval gates, less hand-holding. The models got better, so your prompts can get smaller.
half-life 60dfrom 15 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Harness engineering lessons from production AI chatbots
Lessons from deploying AI chatbots on client sites: prompt architecture, context management, fallback chains, cost control, and which harness patterns hold up in production.
half-life 90dfrom 14 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Hermes Agent 0.21.2: the state.db release and the credential vault
After a big 0.21.0, Hermes spent its next two point releases on reliability. What broke, what the 11 September patch fixes, the new password-blind vault, and how to update safely.
half-life 45dfrom 13 Sep 2026
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Frameworks
Skills frameworks are everywhere. Here is what makes one worth using.
OpenAI, Hermes, HumanLayer and a dozen GitHub repos all shipped skills systems in the same month. The shared pattern is clear enough; the implementations are not. What separates a good skill from a bad one.
half-life 90dfrom 12 Sep 2026
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Protocols
MCP security is an unsolved problem. Here are the four attack surfaces.
Three papers published in August and September 2026 found at least four distinct attack surfaces in every MCP deployment. What they found, and what to do about each one.
half-life 90dfrom 11 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Sandboxes and self-writing agents: what isolation Prime Agent and Agent Zero give you
Both agents write and run their own code. One tells you outright that it is not a sandbox; the other wraps everything in a container. What each boundary protects, and what neither does.
half-life 90dfrom 10 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Hermes, Agent Zero or OpenClaw: which self-hosted agent should you run?
Three open-source agents you can run yourself, built for three different jobs. A side-by-side comparison of where each lives, how it is isolated, and the kind of team it suits.
half-life 60dfrom 9 Sep 2026
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Tools
Engrim: local-first memory that survives context clears
Every time you clear your agent's context, months of architectural decisions vanish. Engrim keeps them in a local SQLite store that works across Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity and Codex.
half-life 90dfrom 9 Sep 2026
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Protocols
NLIP, A2A, MCP: the three protocols your agents actually need
Three protocols claim to solve agent interoperability, and each one works at a different layer. What they do, where they overlap, and what to build on today.
half-life 180dfrom 8 Sep 2026
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Guide
How we built a 24/7 AI enquiry assistant for static sites
Static sites cannot run server-side logic, but clients wanted an AI chatbot that could handle enquiries, qualify leads and send emails. The architecture, the trade-offs, and what worked in production.
half-life 90dfrom 7 Sep 2026
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Guide
Running Claude Code, Codex and Hermes through Ori: a working setup
Install Ori, sign in once, and launch your usual agents on any OpenRouter model. The exact commands, the model flag, the controls that carry over from your organisation, and where it still trips people up.
half-life 45dfrom 6 Sep 2026
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Tools
DaeOne: one interface to run your entire website
Website ownership is fragmented: analytics, email, SEO and support all live in different tools. DaeOne pulls everything into one AI-powered dashboard.
half-life 90dfrom 5 Sep 2026
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Models
Local LLM inference in September 2026: what actually works
Running models on your own hardware is no longer a compromise. Where local inference stands right now: the tools, the hardware, and where the trade-offs land.
half-life 45dfrom 4 Sep 2026
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Frameworks
Agent Zero: giving an agent a whole Linux computer
Agent Zero's pitch is not a better tool list but a whole desktop in a container: a browser, an office suite, a terminal and isolated projects. What that makes possible, and the risks that come with it.
half-life 120dfrom 3 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Hermes Agent 0.21: bot society, cron memory and steerable subagents
The 31 August release turns Hermes from a single assistant into a small society of named agents, gives scheduled jobs a memory, and lets you steer subagents mid-flight. Here is what changes for a small-business deployment.
half-life 60dfrom 2 Sep 2026
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Harnesses
Ori Harness: OpenRouter's wrapper that configures your agent for you
Ori launched on 4 August to run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Hermes through OpenRouter without hand-editing a dozen environment variables. What it does, what it does not, and who it is for.
half-life 60dfrom 31 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Prime Agent: a harness with one tool and a habit of rewriting itself
Prime Intellect's open-source harness hands the model a single persistent Python kernel and lets it edit its own skills. What that buys you, what the benchmark numbers do and don't say, and why it is not a sandbox.
half-life 90dfrom 29 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Harness Engineering is now a discipline. Here is what that means.
The model is becoming commoditized. The harness — everything around the model — is where the engineering value lives. Three data points prove it, and the implications are immediate.
half-life 90dfrom 27 Aug 2026
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Models
OpenRouter: the LLM gateway that lets you test 400+ models with one API key
OpenRouter gives you 409 models from 59 providers behind one API key. 18 free models including frontier-class options. The practical starting point for autonomous agents and AI frameworks.
half-life 60dfrom 13 Aug 2026
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Models
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: frontier reasoning, built-in safety, and completely free
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra matches frontier models at 3-10x fewer active parameters, with safety guardrails baked into training — not bolted on. Free on OpenRouter.
half-life 90dfrom 13 Aug 2026
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Guide
AI Model Price-to-Performance Guide
A living comparison of 400+ models across five price tiers. Updated every Monday with fresh OpenRouter pricing, new releases, and benchmark data.
half-life 45dfrom 13 Aug 2026
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Models
What Claude Fable 5 actually does differently
Anthropic's most capable widely released model runs with thinking always on and a 1M context. Here is what that changes about how you build on it.
half-life 60dfrom 12 Aug 2026
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Pricing
Xiaomi MiMo: what you get for the money
A 1M-context omnimodal model at roughly a fiftieth of frontier pricing. Where that trade is worth making, and where it very much is not.
half-life 45dfrom 11 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Anatomy of an agent harness
A model is not an agent. The gap between them is six pieces of unglamorous engineering, and almost every agent that fails in production fails in one of them.
half-life 90dfrom 10 Aug 2026
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Pricing
OpenCode Go: $10 a month for eighteen models
A subscription that fronts open-weight coding models at bulk rates. The maths works out — provided you understand what the three spending caps actually do.
half-life 45dfrom 9 Aug 2026
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Pricing
Nous Portal: one account instead of nine API keys
Nous Research's subscription bundles a model catalogue, a managed tool gateway and cloud hosting behind a single sign-in. What it replaces, and what it locks in.
half-life 45dfrom 8 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
Hermes Agent for small businesses
A self-improving agent that runs on a £5 VPS and answers on WhatsApp is a genuinely different proposition for a six-person company than a coding copilot is.
half-life 90dfrom 7 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
What to automate first with Hermes
Five jobs a small business can hand to an agent this month, ordered by how little damage they do when the agent gets it wrong.
half-life 90dfrom 6 Aug 2026
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Guide
Setting up Hermes Agent: a working guide
Install to first useful automation, including the parts the quickstart leaves out — where it runs, which model to point it at, and how to stop it doing something expensive.
half-life 90dfrom 5 Aug 2026
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Harnesses
An introduction to OpenClaw
The most-starred project on GitHub is a local-first personal agent with no subscription. What it is, why it spread, and what running it actually commits you to.
half-life 90dfrom 4 Aug 2026
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Frameworks
An introduction to Paperclip
An org chart for your agents: roles, reporting lines, budgets and audit trails. The orchestration layer above whichever coding agents you already run.
half-life 120dfrom 3 Aug 2026
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Frameworks
An introduction to CrewAI
Role-playing agents that divide work between them, plus an event-driven layer for when you need the sequence to be predictable. Knowing which half to use is the skill.
half-life 120dfrom 2 Aug 2026
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Models
Context engineering replaced prompt engineering
Long context windows didn't end the problem, they moved it. What goes into the window, in what order, and what gets thrown away is now the job.
half-life 60dfrom 28 Jul 2026
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Protocols
MCP in practice: what the protocol is actually for
The pitch is "USB-C for tools". The reality is more specific, and knowing where the boundary sits saves you from building a server you didn't need.
half-life 180dfrom 14 Jul 2026
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Frameworks
Pick a framework, or pick a loop
Most agent frameworks are a while-loop with opinions. Here is how to tell whether you need the opinions, and what you give up when you take them.
half-life 120dfrom 30 Jun 2026
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Tools
Evals that actually catch regressions
A scoreboard that only goes up is measuring the wrong thing. Building the small, mean test set that tells you when a change made things worse.
half-life 120dfrom 12 Jun 2026