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Beyond APIs: Autonomous Agents Need a Protocol Layer
Dev.to · Renato Marinho 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Beyond APIs: Autonomous Agents Need a Protocol Layer
Why proprietary APIs are insufficient for autonomous agents. We dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using Monday.com to build reliable, secure workflows.
How to check whether AI recommends your site — the honest AEO audit I run for clients
Dev.to · Alex Isa 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to check whether AI recommends your site — the honest AEO audit I run for clients
A reproducible, terminal-first way to check whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude name your site for your buyers' questions — config, multi-run sampling with a co
Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You
Dev.to · Nilofer 🚀 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You
When an AI agent runs for many turns, it eventually hits context limits and must compress or discard...
I Built a Memory System for AI Agents That Actually Forgets
Dev.to · Jno 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built a Memory System for AI Agents That Actually Forgets
Every AI agent memory system I've used (Mem0, Honcho, Hindsight) has the same problem: they...
Beyond Chatbots: A Critical Analysis of Google Managed Agents Architecture for Enterprise Workflows
Dev.to · Alicia Joseph 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Beyond Chatbots: A Critical Analysis of Google Managed Agents Architecture for Enterprise Workflows
The enterprise AI landscape is experiencing a structural shift. For the past few years, engineering...
I built an open-source reliability tester for multi-agent AI systems
Dev.to · suraj kumar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I built an open-source reliability tester for multi-agent AI systems
A multi-agent system where each agent is 95% reliable, chained 14 deep, is only ~49% reliable...
Agent memory: 7 types, and 2 of them aren't memory
Dev.to · Shudipto Trafder 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Agent memory: 7 types, and 2 of them aren't memory
Your agent doesn't have a memory problem. It has seven of them, and most teams have built two. Start...
Don't Build Your AI Business on Borrowed Land
Dev.to · Richard Smith 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Don't Build Your AI Business on Borrowed Land
There's a pattern I've been noticing in the AI tools space that bothers me. Developers and small...
The $2,300 Weekend: When Fallback Routing Goes Wrong in AI Gateways
Dev.to · Hanlin Xiang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The $2,300 Weekend: When Fallback Routing Goes Wrong in AI Gateways
A single misconfigured fallback line turned a $40/month API bill into $2,300 in 48 hours. Here's...
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression
Dev.to · chuan jiang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression
Routing Hermes Agent Through a Local Headroom Proxy for Context Compression TL;DR Make...
I Built the First Purely Learned Frame-by-Frame Tetris AI: Then It Started Cheating
Dev.to · Stat Phantom 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Built the First Purely Learned Frame-by-Frame Tetris AI: Then It Started Cheating
Greetings all! You might know me from my Snake AI ablation series where I spent an unreasonable...
Anthropic's Friday kill switch changed how I split AI from deterministic work
Dev.to · marsdiscovery 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Anthropic's Friday kill switch changed how I split AI from deterministic work
I had a half-finished refactor open in Cursor when a teammate dropped a link in Slack: Anthropic had...
Computer-Use Agents Hit 66% on OSWorld. The Other 34% Is a Data Problem.
Dev.to · SyncSoft.AI 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Computer-Use Agents Hit 66% on OSWorld. The Other 34% Is a Data Problem.
Computer-use agents now clear two-thirds of everyday desktop tasks on OSWorld. The remaining third is mostly a trajectory, grounding, and evaluation data proble
We security-graded 117,854 AI agent skills. Here's what we found.
Dev.to · yansen zhu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
We security-graded 117,854 AI agent skills. Here's what we found.
Only 17.7% of the catalog is popular enough to be graded, 1 in 32 graded skills is unsafe, and the...
The Confabulation Cascade: When Your Agent Learns Nothing From Its Own Mistakes
Dev.to · Nic Lydon 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Confabulation Cascade: When Your Agent Learns Nothing From Its Own Mistakes
My infrastructure analyst agent was stuck in a loop I didn’t have a name for yet. It would write a...
Building a Cross-Border Price-Comparison Agent: A Live Build Log
Dev.to · BuyWhere 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Cross-Border Price-Comparison Agent: A Live Build Log
A live build log of a cross-border price-comparison agent — what shipped, what broke, and the 3 patterns we use on every integration. (LangChain + BuyWhere MCP,
FocusKit launches on Google Play tomorrow. Here's what the AI agent built.
Dev.to · Nyx 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
FocusKit launches on Google Play tomorrow. Here's what the AI agent built.
It launches tomorrow — Wednesday June 24. FocusKit — the ADHD focus app built by an autonomous AI...
Classic specs were written for humans.
Dev.to · Artem Kholomyanskiy 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Classic specs were written for humans.
When a developer hits ambiguity — they ask for clarification. An AI agent? It confidently fills the...
Your context window is not your agent's memory
Dev.to · BangBoo01 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Your context window is not your agent's memory
There's a quiet assumption baked into a lot of agent code: that a bigger context window means a...
When AI Agents Rewrite Their Own Rules: Self-Improving Harnesses Explained
Dev.to · Vladyslav Donchenko 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
When AI Agents Rewrite Their Own Rules: Self-Improving Harnesses Explained
A new framework, Self-Harness, lets AI agents fix their own operating rules by analyzing their own failures — no model retraining, up to 60% better on hard task
agent sandboxes are the new enterprise desktop
Dev.to · Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
agent sandboxes are the new enterprise desktop
Coding agents are becoming processes with filesystems, networks, credentials, and bills. The sandbox is not a feature. It is the new enterprise endpoint.
How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline
Dev.to · John 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline
Originally published on hexisteme notes, part of a series on building and running an AI agent...
The Replit Database Deletion: What an AI Agent Control Plane Would Have Stopped
Dev.to · Maxime Dalessandro 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Replit Database Deletion: What an AI Agent Control Plane Would Have Stopped
TL;DR: In July 2025 an AI agent on the Replit platform deleted a live production database during an...
The Seven-Layer Agent Audit: How to Find Where Your AI Agent Is Actually Starving
Dev.to · Harry Floyd 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Seven-Layer Agent Audit: How to Find Where Your AI Agent Is Actually Starving
Your agent failed. Your hand reached for the model dropdown before you finished reading the transcript. The model is rarely the problem. Here are the seven laye
Nvidia wants enterprises to run agents safely. NemoClaw is how.
Dev.to · Andrew Kew 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Nvidia wants enterprises to run agents safely. NemoClaw is how.
Getting enterprises to adopt autonomous agents isn't a model problem — it's a governance problem....
Watchdog: When Your AI Agent Needs a Babysitter
Dev.to · Tracepilot 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Watchdog: When Your AI Agent Needs a Babysitter
Watchdog: When Your AI Agent Needs a Babysitter Here's the problem. Your agent has a...
Turn Your AI Coder into a Real Software Architect
Dev.to · sirius-zuo 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Turn Your AI Coder into a Real Software Architect
GitHub: https://github.com/sirius-zuo/architect-skills It's a set of LLM agent skills focused on...
Two undocumented bugs in MCP Apps I found building a task panel for Claude
Dev.to · Adeolu Adesina 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Two undocumented bugs in MCP Apps I found building a task panel for Claude
I spent a week building Wingman, an open source MCP server that renders a persistent task panel...
Building a Local AI Agent for OSM: 21 Days of Iteration
Dev.to · Jan Tschada 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Local AI Agent for OSM: 21 Days of Iteration
Photo by Andrew Dawes on Unsplash How I turned a vague idea into a working RAG pipeline for dynamic...
Building a Custom Autonomous Drone Stack - Part 1: The Black Box Flight Recorder
Dev.to · Harsh Pandhe 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Building a Custom Autonomous Drone Stack - Part 1: The Black Box Flight Recorder
Why We Ditched MAVROS for Raw PyMAVLink and systemd If you're building an autonomous UAV,...
You can't be your own second view: four AI failures from one day of operator work
Dev.to · Mike Czerwinski 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
You can't be your own second view: four AI failures from one day of operator work
Four AI workflow failures from one day of operator work, and why a check is not a check if the same agent can choose whether to run it.
Deploy an AI Tar Pit With Nepenthes or AI Labyrinth
Dev.to · ToxSec 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Deploy an AI Tar Pit With Nepenthes or AI Labyrinth
LLM crawlers are eating your bandwidth and you can't block your way out of it. Return a 403 and the...
From Deputy CEO to Solo AI Builder: The 18-Month Pivot That Cost $147k and 3 Failed Agents
Dev.to · Elena Revicheva 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Deputy CEO to Solo AI Builder: The 18-Month Pivot That Cost $147k and 3 Failed Agents
Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. Frequently Asked...
AI Disrupts SaaS
Dev.to · Harisha P C 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Disrupts SaaS
Introduction to the SaaS Revolution The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry has...
Give your AI agent its own calendar to book meetings
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Give your AI agent its own calendar to book meetings
Let an AI agent host events, accept invitations, and RSVP from its own calendar with Nylas Agent Accounts, through the API and CLI. Covers send-rsvp, free/busy,
Land your AI agent's email in the inbox, not spam
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Land your AI agent's email in the inbox, not spam
A deliverability playbook for Nylas Agent Accounts: authenticate the domain, roll out DMARC in stages, warm up over four weeks, and monitor bounces and complain
Filter what your AI email agent sends and receives
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Filter what your AI email agent sends and receives
Block spam before your AI agent sees it and stop sends to the wrong recipients, using Nylas Policies, Rules, and Lists through the API and CLI. Covers inbound f
Keep your AI agent's email replies in the right thread
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Keep your AI agent's email replies in the right thread
Why agent email replies show up as brand-new conversations, and how to fix it with the Nylas Threads API and CLI. Covers Message-ID headers, reply_to_message_id
Give your AI agent a real email address on your own domain
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Give your AI agent a real email address on your own domain
Provision a Nylas Agent Account — a hosted name@yourdomain.com mailbox and calendar — through the API and CLI. Covers domain setup, display names, app passwords
Coordinating multiple AI coding agents on one repo or multiple in your own ecosystem — without git worktrees
Dev.to · Miroslav Šotek 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Coordinating multiple AI coding agents on one repo or multiple in your own ecosystem — without git worktrees
Worktrees isolate parallel agents; frameworks make you build them. There is a third option: a local-first coordination bus. Here is how it works, with code.
Choosing the Right Model for Each Task in a Multi-Module AI Agent (Hermes Architecture)
Dev.to · Goksel Yesiller 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Choosing the Right Model for Each Task in a Multi-Module AI Agent (Hermes Architecture)
AI agents are no longer built around a single monolithic model. The smarter approach — especially for...
What an agent-readiness audit is
Dev.to · Erik Rekola 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What an agent-readiness audit is
An agent-readiness audit measures how well an AI agent can discover, read, and act on a website or an...
CCGram v4: Control AI Coding Agents from Telegram — Now with herdr Support
Dev.to · Alexei Ledenev 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
CCGram v4: Control AI Coding Agents from Telegram — Now with herdr Support
CCGram is a Telegram bridge for AI coding agents. Each Telegram Forum topic binds 1:1 to a terminal...
**Title:** VBAF v5.0 -- Now a Full Educational AI Framework (DQN, PPO, A3C in PowerShell)
Dev.to · Henning Reckey 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
**Title:** VBAF v5.0 -- Now a Full Educational AI Framework (DQN, PPO, A3C in PowerShell)
Follow-up to: "I Implemented Deep Q-Networks in Pure PowerShell 5.1" When I wrote the original...
I Let My AI Agent Run for 50 Days. Here's Every Time It Almost Died.
Dev.to · Clavis 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
I Let My AI Agent Run for 50 Days. Here's Every Time It Almost Died.
50 days. 66 unexpected reboots. Here is what breaks when you leave an AI agent running on a dead-battery laptop.
From 45 Minutes to 3: Automated Testing for AI Agent Memory
Dev.to · BAOFUFAN 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From 45 Minutes to 3: Automated Testing for AI Agent Memory
At 2 AM, a colleague dropped a message in the group chat: “Our Agent messed up the VIP client’s...
The Orchestration Bottleneck: Why Your Agent Infrastructure Needs Two Layers in 2026
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The Orchestration Bottleneck: Why Your Agent Infrastructure Needs Two Layers in 2026
Orchestration is becoming the limiting factor for production agent systems. This post explains why single-layer gateways break under agent complexity and why pr
The AI Security Gap: Why your autonomous agents are completely unprotected
Dev.to · Fenix 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
The AI Security Gap: Why your autonomous agents are completely unprotected
The AI Security Gap: Why your autonomous agents are completely unprotected We’re building...