Jerome Swannack, an original architect of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), identified a critical gap in the protocol: the inability for clients to expose tools back to servers, which he calls "second…
Nango released a guide for building a customer-facing GitHub API integration that enables AI agents to create issues, comment on pull requests, and open PRs on customer repositories. The integration u…
A developer built Brain AI Hub, a portable second brain system that combines a local LLM, markdown vault, semantic search, and MCP hooks for IDE agents. The open-source project enables self-hosted RAG…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) will drop session state in its 2026 redesign, removing the initialize handshake and MCP-Session-Id header to enable stateless operation. The release candidate, publish…
Google Cloud and industry partners announced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. ARD enables…
Strands Shell, a Bourne-compatible shell that runs in-process without fork or syscalls, launches to give AI agents isolated shell access with sub-millisecond cold starts. The tool provides over 50 bui…
Snowflake announced support for the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open protocol developed with Microsoft and GoDaddy that standardizes how AI agents and tools are cataloged and di…
WitnessAI launched Agentic Control on June 17, 2026, a single control plane to discover, monitor, govern, and restrict AI agent behaviors and their interactions with tools and Model Context Protocol (…
A developer argues that using a boolean flag for tool-call approvals in agentic systems is insecure and proposes binding approvals to specific calls via HMAC-signed tokens. The approach prevents repla…
AI coding agent extensions can degrade performance when installed together due to token competition, vocabulary collisions, and guidance conflicts, even if each extension works well in isolation. Deve…
WitnessAI launched Agentic Control, a security platform that provides visibility and control over AI agents interacting with enterprise systems, tools, and MCP servers. The solution offers a single co…
The AAIF Annual Technical Excellence Awards nominations are open until July 17, with guidance provided for writing effective nominations across three categories: Outstanding Technical Contribution, Co…
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced the inaugural AAIF Annual Technical Excellence Awards to honor individuals, teams, and organizations advancing open, interoperable agentic AI. Nominations ar…
Sid Probstein, creator of SWIRL and CEO of SWIRL AI, argues that copying enterprise data into a vector database for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) introduces security and compliance risks. He ad…
Agenthatch launches a tool that compiles SKILL.md files into standalone Python agents, addressing isolation, validation, and scaling issues in multi-skill AI workflows. The deterministic pipeline pars…
Hextrap launched a package firewall that proxies pip, npm, go get, and cargo installs through managed allow/deny lists, OPA policies, and safeguards like soak time and typosquatting detection. The too…
GitHub announced the general availability of its Copilot app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, providing a desktop environment for agent-driven development. The app enables users to start sessions from i…
A developer warns that MCP scopes in APC/APX are trust boundaries, not settings, and misusing them leads to conflicts and fragile onboarding. The three scopes—runtime, shared, and global—each serve di…
Anthropic has separated Claude Agent SDK and claude -p usage on subscription plans into a monthly credit pool, distinct from interactive Claude Code usage. Developers must now budget for programmatic …
Mistral AI launched Connectors in public preview, allowing developers to register MCP servers once and reuse them across API calls without managing local transport. The feature includes built-in integ…