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13:00
2026-08-13
pac.commonsware.com
artificial-intelligence

Thursdays with Koog: Strategies

Koog's AIAgent delegates its work to an AIAgentStrategy interface, with the default singleRunStrategy() factory function implementing a one-shot graph pattern that calls the LLM, executes tools, and r…

22:00
2026-08-11
pac.commonsware.com
large-language-models

Not Much of a Glimmer

Meta's open-weights Muse-Glimmer model, run locally via Ollama on a 64GB M2 Ultra Mac Studio, took more than twice as long as Qwen 3.6 to complete a documentation-review prompt and produced a small fr…

20:00
2026-08-08
pac.commonsware.com
artificial-intelligence

2026 Local Models: Analysis Over Generation

Local models such as Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 are close to being useful for Kotlin Multiplatform code generation but still fall short for many developers, according to Mark Murphy's experiments. Murphy su…

13:00
2026-08-06
pac.commonsware.com
ai-agents

Thursdays with Koog: Status and Metrics

Knosh 0.3.0, an open-source coding agent built on Koog's AIAgent framework, now displays a Braille-dot loading animation that advances with each tool call and status event, improving user feedback dur…

06:41
2026-08-03
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ai-agents

MCP vs. Bash

A developer argues that Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools are safer and more auditable than shell access for coding agents, citing Simon Willison's warning that giving an agent a shell with internet …

13:00
2026-07-30
pac.commonsware.com
developer-tools

Thursdays with Koog: Tools

Koog's Knosh 0.3.0 offers a class-based approach for defining tools, where developers extend Tool or SimpleTool and use LLMDescription annotations to guide the LLM, as demonstrated by the CreateDirect…

13:00
2026-07-23
pac.commonsware.com
ai-agents

Thursdays with Koog: Prompts Everywhere

Mark Murphy's 'Thursdays with Koog' column explains that in the AIAgent framework, the user's instruction is only a 'user message' within a larger prompt that includes a system prompt and conversation…

13:00
2026-07-16
pac.commonsware.com
ai-agents

Thursdays with Koog: PromptExecutor vs. AIAgent

Knosh, an open-source coding agent, uses Koog's AIAgent instead of PromptExecutor because PromptExecutor only executes one-shot prompts without handling tool calls or multi-turn conversations. Mark Mu…

23:00
2026-07-13
pac.commonsware.com
artificial-intelligence

Red Team All the Things

Security expert Thomas Ptacek argues that LLM agents are uniquely suited for vulnerability research, and Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini demonstrated that a simple prompt to Claude Opus can iden…

13:00
2026-07-09
pac.commonsware.com
developer-tools

Thursdays with Koog: Providers and Models

Mark Murphy's Knosh coding agent maps model strings from Markdown frontmatter to Koog's LLMProvider and LLMClient objects, supporting providers including Ollama, Anthropic, Mistral, and OpenAI. The ma…