Blog/Topic
Building AI agents: agent loops, tool design, memory, identity, and the review and tests that make agent code mergeable.
AI agents
·12 min read
How to use Claude in OpenCode: the new Claude Agent provider on your Claude plan, API keys, Console, Copilot and OpenRouter, with costs and limits.
AI agents
·11 min read
Claude Code Review, now GA for Team and Enterprise: how agents verify findings, set review levels, cap spend, and compare with the GitHub Action.
AI agents
·12 min read
How to write a Claude skill: directory layout, frontmatter fields and limits, progressive disclosure, descriptions that trigger, scripts and testing.
AI agents
·11 min read
How to design agent tools that get picked and called correctly: task-shaped tools, descriptions, schemas, compact responses and errors a model can act on.
AI agents
·11 min read
How to use coding agents on a legacy migration: characterization tests first, one seam per task, review gates and differential verification.
AI agents
·12 min read
How async coding agents queue tasks, run in sandboxes, open draft PRs and pass CI. Provider limits, cost controls, review design and failure modes.
AI agents
·10 min read
Why LLM accuracy drops as context grows, and how clearing tool results, compaction, notes and sub-agents keep long-running agents on track.
AI agents
·7 min read
Where AI agents help with end-to-end tests: Playwright planner, generator and healer, MCP or CLI, and the guardrails that keep healed tests honest.
AI agents
·12 min read
What the Agent2Agent protocol standardizes in v1.0: agent cards, tasks, bindings, security, how it differs from MCP, and when it is worth using.
AI agents
·10 min read
How to build an internal AI copilot for B2B sales reps: the account data it needs, per-rep permissions, approval gates, KPIs and the works council.
AI agents
·8 min read
AI agent for after-sales service: serial number to spare part, RMA drafting, manual RAG, and the rule that identifiers only come from tools.
AI agents
·8 min read
OpenCode is an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent for any model, hosted or local. Agents, permissions, MCP and LSP, plus the data-protection trade-offs.
AI agents
·8 min read
How to build an agent for ERP integration error handling: an error taxonomy from IDoc and OData contracts, allowlisted runbooks, safe retries and dedup.
AI agents
·8 min read
Pydantic AI 2.55: typed dependencies, validated output and OpenTelemetry tracing for Python agents. What 2.0 changed, Logfire costs, who should pick it.
AI agents
·9 min read
Gemini CLI review: Apache-2.0 and still releasing, but the free individual route closed on 18 June 2026. Left: Code Assist, billed API keys and Vertex AI.
AI agents
·8 min read
Temporal: agent loops as durable workflows, so retries, approvals and timers survive crashes. Costs, data residency, determinism, when to skip it.
AI agents
·12 min read
E2B gives each agent run its own Firecracker microVM, billed per second. Where it fits, what the EU option costs, and where self-hosting stops.
AI agents
·11 min read
AI coding economics: what the METR, DORA, Microsoft and GitHub studies show, what they do not prove, and a break-even model for one senior vs a team.
AI agents
·11 min read
Vibe coding breaks on real codebases. Write a spec with acceptance criteria, a plan and tasks, let the agent tick them off, and agree it before any code.
AI agents
·14 min read
OpenAI dots: always-on GPT-6 Astra agents with their own computer. What launched, how the safeguards work, and what changes for work, IT, SaaS and Europe.
AI agents
·9 min read
modelcontextprotocol/servers reviewed: seven reference servers, what each one teaches, their SDK versions, and why none belongs in production.
AI agents
·10 min read
A review of Aider 0.86.2, an Apache-2.0 terminal pair programmer whose benchmark ranks models honestly and whose release cadence has stopped.
AI agents
·10 min read
A review of the OpenAI Agents SDK: the runner loop, tracing, guardrails and approvals, plus what the release churn and the Responses-only features cost.
AI agents
·13 min read
How to design AI agent memory: context vs session vs long-term tiers, what to write and never store, retrieval, compaction, poisoning and GDPR erasure.
AI agents
·9 min read
OpenHands 1.25.0: an MIT-licensed coding agent platform with a web canvas, CLI, sandboxed execution and scheduled automations, and where it gets heavy.
AI agents
·8 min read
Harness engineering for coding agents: guides and sensors, where to run each check, red/green TDD, and mutation testing of the tests the agent wrote.
AI agents
·10 min read
Cursor bundles an editor, a terminal agent and cloud runs in one plan. What its two usage pools cost, and when Copilot, Claude Code or Cline wins.
AI agents
·10 min read
An engineering review of Claude Code: the extension surface, the real cost per developer, and the exact boundary of the Bash sandbox.
AI agents
·11 min read
OpenAI Codex CLI, the open-source terminal coding agent: how its sandbox, approval policy and config.toml work, and what unattended CI runs cost.
AI agents
·17 min read
rtk, lean-ctx, context-mode, Serena and 16 more token savers for coding agents, ranked by evidence, with my own measurements on a real Nuxt codebase.
AI agents
·10 min read
GitHub's cloud coding agent takes an issue and opens a pull request. What the 59-minute session limit, AI credits and review duty mean in production.
AI agents
·12 min read
Orchestrator-worker, fan-out, critic, handoff: what multi-agent systems really buy you, what they cost in tokens, how they fail, and a table to decide.
AI agents
·9 min read
MCP 2026-07-28 drops sessions and the initialize handshake. For server authors: _meta, server/discover, MRTR, auth and a migration checklist.
AI agents
·13 min read
Approval gates for AI agents: where they belong, how to avoid rubber-stamping, and how interrupt and resume work in LangGraph, OpenAI and Claude SDKs.
AI agents
·10 min read
Goose, an Apache-2.0 Rust coding agent under the Linux Foundation: how its permissions, recipes and MCP extensions compare with commercial tools.
AI agents
·10 min read
LangGraph for production agents: checkpointed supersteps, interrupts and streaming, where the durability model stops short, and what LangSmith costs.
AI agents
·10 min read
How the agent loop works in code, which stop conditions and budgets to enforce, and how outer loops like Ralph and Claude Code /loop and /goal behave.
AI agents
·11 min read
Mastra review: agents, workflows, memory, MCP and evals in one TypeScript framework. What its Apache-2.0 core covers, and what the ee/ split costs.
AI agents
·10 min read
LlamaIndex in 2026: an MIT-licensed Python data and agent framework with 300+ integrations, event-driven Workflows, and a focus shifted to LlamaParse.
AI agents
·10 min read
Zed 1.22 review: edit predictions, ACP external agents, parallel threads, the $20 default monthly ceiling on Pro, and the extensions it trades away.
AI agents
·7 min read
Agent skills in practice: about 20 skills in one master folder for three coding agents, from reproducing bugs with real data to PRs, with guardrails.
AI agents
·8 min read
Context engineering decides what a coding agent has in context: rules in AGENTS.md, procedures in skills, and when an MCP tool beats a shell command.
AI agents
·11 min read
Cline: an Apache-2.0 agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal. What Plan and Act, checkpoints and auto-approve guarantee, and where safety leaks.
AI agents
·13 min read
Voice agents: realtime speech-to-speech or a cascade of STT, LLM and TTS? Latency per stage, turn-taking, tool calls, German and Hungarian, AI Act.
AI agents
·10 min read
CrewAI, an MIT-licensed Python multi-agent framework: crews for autonomous teamwork, flows for controlled state, the token bill and where it hurts.
AI agents
·8 min read
AI code review cannot keep up with agent-written PRs. What the data says, size budgets, stacked PRs, AI as first pass, and who stays accountable.