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Why block counts are not enough for agent safety
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why block counts are not enough for agent safety
A block count is not an audit record. If an agent guard says it blocked 200 actions, I still need to...
The boring checklist before running a new local agent
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The boring checklist before running a new local agent
Before I run a new local agent, I want a boring checklist. Not hype. Not a demo video. Just...
Coding agents need branch policy at runtime
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Coding agents need branch policy at runtime
Telling a coding agent "do not push to main" is useful. It is not enough. Branch policy has to be a...
Agent guards need receipts, not just block counts
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent guards need receipts, not just block counts
A lot of AI-agent safety tooling is framed around blocking bad actions. Blocking matters, but it is...
Edge Computing Architecture for Industrial AI: 5 Patterns That Survive the Factory Floor
Dev.to · KGT Solutions 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Edge Computing Architecture for Industrial AI: 5 Patterns That Survive the Factory Floor
Edge computing is now the backbone of industrial AI. Cloud-only architectures consistently fail in...
Agent demos are easy. Agent operations need receipts.
Dev.to · Armorer Labs 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent demos are easy. Agent operations need receipts.
I keep seeing the same pattern with AI agents: the demo works, the first workflow is exciting, and...
🚀 Meet JanSahayak AI: Your Personal Guide to Indian Government Schemes
Dev.to · Aritra Mondal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
🚀 Meet JanSahayak AI: Your Personal Guide to Indian Government Schemes
By Aritra Mondal | Built for the Google Gen AI Academy "Meet the Builders" Campaign 💡 The Everyday...
Give your AI agent its own inbox: Nylas Agent Accounts via API and CLI
Dev.to · Qasim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Give your AI agent its own inbox: Nylas Agent Accounts via API and CLI
How to provision a real email + calendar identity for an AI agent with the Nylas API and CLI — create, send, receive, RSVP, and guardrail it with policies and r
I opened my first PR to LiveKit's agents repo — here's the bug I found
Dev.to · Diya 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I opened my first PR to LiveKit's agents repo — here's the bug I found
I've been growing my open source portfolio one contribution at a time, and this week I landed on...
The Pentagon Mandated AI Audit Trails. No One Has Built Them. Until Now.
Dev.to · Jason Reeder 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Pentagon Mandated AI Audit Trails. No One Has Built Them. Until Now.
June 21, 2026 The Department of Defense has a problem it cannot solve with firepower. AI agents are...
Agent Session Memory Isn't a Feature. It's Your Control Plane.
Dev.to · Paul Twist 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Agent Session Memory Isn't a Feature. It's Your Control Plane.
Agent Session Memory Isn't a Feature. It's Your Control Plane. When I say "agent memory...
The role AI actually eliminates
Dev.to · Kay Ashaolu 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The role AI actually eliminates
Everyone keeps predicting that AI eliminates the junior engineer first. I think that prediction aims at the wrong rung of the ladder. Maya is the bes…
Amazon Quick Agentic Workspace Powered by FSx for ONTAP S3 Access Points — Phase 17
Dev.to · Yoshiki Fujiwara(藤原 善基)@AWS Community Builder 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Amazon Quick Agentic Workspace Powered by FSx for ONTAP S3 Access Points — Phase 17
TL;DR UC30 bridges the gap between file-based business data and AI-powered actions....
Cryptographic proof-of-existence for AI agent outputs — $0.01 per record via x402
Dev.to · GitSerge-crypto 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cryptographic proof-of-existence for AI agent outputs — $0.01 per record via x402
How to notarize AI-generated artifacts on-chain for $0.01 USDC using x402, NEAR anchoring, and Ed25519 signatures. With working curl examples.
The Hidden Machinery of Quantum Reality
Dev.to · Gani Mendoza 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Hidden Machinery of Quantum Reality
Why Bohmian Mechanics, Go Programs, AI, and EBP 2.1 Could Help Reopen the Deepest Questions...
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases + FSx for ONTAP S3 Access Points: Self-Service AI Curation via Windows Drag & Drop — Phase 16
Dev.to · Yoshiki Fujiwara(藤原 善基)@AWS Community Builder 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases + FSx for ONTAP S3 Access Points: Self-Service AI Curation via Windows Drag & Drop — Phase 16
TL;DR "Put files in this Windows folder and your AI assistant can use them after the next...
I built OpenCode Nexus: A multi-agent workflow plugin for OpenCode that prevents context loss and enforces two-stage code reviews.
Dev.to · M D 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built OpenCode Nexus: A multi-agent workflow plugin for OpenCode that prevents context loss and enforces two-stage code reviews.
Hi everyone, I've been experimenting with multi-agent workflows for coding, and I kept running into...
Building a Memory Agent That Actually Forgets (And the Three Bugs That Taught Me Why That's Hard)
Dev.to · Nidhi 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Memory Agent That Actually Forgets (And the Three Bugs That Taught Me Why That's Hard)
By Nidhi: Built for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud, Track 1: MemoryAgent When I...
Why "It Works" Is the Wrong Bar for AI-Generated Code in Agentic Systems
Dev.to · theAIGeek 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why "It Works" Is the Wrong Bar for AI-Generated Code in Agentic Systems
Why "It Works" Is the Wrong Bar for AI-Generated Code in Agentic Systems The most...
Inspecting Anthropic’s ‘Claude Code’ CLI: Architecture of a $40B AI Agent
Dev.to · Harsh Gautam 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Inspecting Anthropic’s ‘Claude Code’ CLI: Architecture of a $40B AI Agent
When Anthropic released Claude Code—their flagship agentic command-line interface—it shipped to the...
Your AI assistant shouldn't guess. In crypto, a confident wrong answer costs you your wallet.
Dev.to · TxDesk 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI assistant shouldn't guess. In crypto, a confident wrong answer costs you your wallet.
Ask most AI assistants about your transaction and they will autocomplete an answer. The chain is...
Smart Development: Building with Autonomous Agentic AI
Dev.to · Chandana Pathirage 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Smart Development: Building with Autonomous Agentic AI
Software development is entering a new phase. For years, the goal was simple: help engineers write...
AI Güvenlik Protokolleri Üzerine Yeni Yaklaşımlar
Dev.to · Cansu Dut 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Güvenlik Protokolleri Üzerine Yeni Yaklaşımlar
Google DeepMind, yapay zeka ajanlarının birbirleriyle konuştuğu çoklu ajan sistemleri (multi-agent...
"My Two AI Tasks Kept Fighting for the Same Mouse"
Dev.to · CodeKing 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
"My Two AI Tasks Kept Fighting for the Same Mouse"
Parallel AI tasks looked impressive until two of them tried to drive the same desktop. I fixed it with resource-aware queuing instead of blind cancellation.
Open Source an AI Agent That Audits Your AWS Account
Dev.to · Shambu Pujar 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Open Source an AI Agent That Audits Your AWS Account
cloud-audit-agent is an open source CLI that uses Claude to reason over your live AWS data and...
Coding Agents: Moving From "Bash Mimics" to "AST Manipulators"
Dev.to · Rocking Eval 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Coding Agents: Moving From "Bash Mimics" to "AST Manipulators"
In the last post, we killed the "Tool Abstraction" layer. By replacing 50 brittle JSON-RPC wrappers...
The CTO Playbook for AI Agent Data Analysis on a Budget
Dev.to · gentleforge 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The CTO Playbook for AI Agent Data Analysis on a Budget
So here's what happened: the CTO Playbook for AI Agent Data Analysis on a Budget Six months ago my...
I Saved 60% on AI Voice Assistants: Here's the Full Breakdown
Dev.to · bolddeck 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Saved 60% on AI Voice Assistants: Here's the Full Breakdown
I Saved 60% on AI Voice Assistants: Here's the Full Breakdown I have a confession. I'm the person on...
Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge
Dev.to · Albert zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge
We built AgentForge to solve our own problem. Here's what 6 months of production multi-agent...
I built a mini agent-tool framework to actually understand how LangGraph/CrewAI register tools
Dev.to · Sajid Islam 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I built a mini agent-tool framework to actually understand how LangGraph/CrewAI register tools
I'm going through a 16-week Agentic AI syllabus right now, and Week 1 is "Python for Agentic Systems"...
CodeGraph Review 2026: This MCP Server Cut My AI Agent's Token Waste by 47%
Dev.to · yihui zhang 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
CodeGraph Review 2026: This MCP Server Cut My AI Agent's Token Waste by 47%
You know that feeling when you're watching Claude Code or Cursor explore a big codebase, and it just...
How to Make a Kernel AI Actually Rational: Causal Chains, Hallucination Detection, and a Parliament
Dev.to · Eric-Octavian 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Make a Kernel AI Actually Rational: Causal Chains, Hallucination Detection, and a Parliament
Last week I wrote about building a kernel-integrated AI that doesn't hallucinate. People asked: "How...
My AI integration had terrible costs until I changed my approach
Dev.to · zhongqiyue 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
My AI integration had terrible costs until I changed my approach
The problem: I loved AI summaries until I got the bill Last month I was working on a SaaS...
How to Set Spend Limits for Autonomous AI Agents
Dev.to · Spur 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Set Spend Limits for Autonomous AI Agents
Autonomous AI agents are executing real transactions. Booking travel, procuring software licenses,...
Evaluating Kimi 2.5 vs Kimi 2.6: What happens to agent skills when the model gets smarter?
Dev.to · Tessl 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Evaluating Kimi 2.5 vs Kimi 2.6: What happens to agent skills when the model gets smarter?
When a stronger model ships, there are two questions every skill author should want answered, and...
Goal In, DAG Out: How Open-Multi-Agent Turns a Goal into a Task DAG
Dev.to · JackChen 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Goal In, DAG Out: How Open-Multi-Agent Turns a Goal into a Task DAG
In most TypeScript agent frameworks you wire the task graph by hand. open-multi-agent's runTeam() hands a goal to a coordinator that builds the DAG for you — he
AI Agent Blind Spot Detector: Find Failed Conversations Before They Become Churn
Dev.to · Jack M 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Agent Blind Spot Detector: Find Failed Conversations Before They Become Churn
Build an AI agent blind spot detector with unresolved-intent clustering, outcome scoring, trace evidence, review queues, and product feedback loops.
Stop sleeping your agent loop for 5 minutes
Dev.to · Mirza Iqbal 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Stop sleeping your agent loop for 5 minutes
Your agent's idle timer talks to the prompt cache, and most loops are written as if it does not. The five-minute nap is the worst number on the board. Here is w
The AI-Agent Call You Should Block Before It Happens
Dev.to · Assili Salim 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The AI-Agent Call You Should Block Before It Happens
The most expensive AI-agent call is not always the biggest one. Sometimes it is the next one. The...
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsifiable 6-month bet I'm making and what would prove me wrong.
How 2026's agentic-RL research trains long-horizon agents
Dev.to · AI Tech Connect 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How 2026's agentic-RL research trains long-horizon agents
The 2026 shift from next-token generation to training agents as decision-makers that plan, call tools and optimise whole trajectories — and what builders can us
How AI engines actually decide what to cite (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews)
Dev.to · Nitish Yadav 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How AI engines actually decide what to cite (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews)
Everyone keeps asking "is SEO dead." Wrong question. AI search doesn't show ten blue links. It...
Monitorear agentes de IA con CloudWatch
Dev.to · Franchesco Romero 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Monitorear agentes de IA con CloudWatch
Las dos ideas que hicieron el trabajo: Los modos de falla ya son líneas de log. Conviértelos en...
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
Dev.to · MORINAGA 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
The core counterargument to my three directory sites is Google's own AI Overviews. Here's the falsifiable 6-month bet I'm making and what would prove me wrong.
NVIDIA SkillSpector: Should You Scan Your AI Agent Skills Before Installing Them?
Dev.to · ArshTechPro 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
NVIDIA SkillSpector: Should You Scan Your AI Agent Skills Before Installing Them?
If you have been using Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or any agent framework that supports...
Your AI feels slow? Maybe it's not dumb—you're making it work one thing at a time
Dev.to · kanfu-panda 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your AI feels slow? Maybe it's not dumb—you're making it work one thing at a time
📖 Originally published on my blog. Part of a series on building with Claude Code. For a while I'd...
When an AI Agent Joins Your Yjs Room, Three Assumptions Break
Dev.to · NorfolkD 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When an AI Agent Joins Your Yjs Room, Three Assumptions Break
Wiring an LLM as a first-class Yjs peer is architecturally sound — but it invalidates three silent...
AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer
Dev.to · Agent Leash 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer
AI Coding Agents Need a Control Layer AI coding agents are getting good enough that the problem is...