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The July 22 post describes an installable skill that reads your repo to map the agent surface (prompts, models, tools, skills, hooks), pulls production traces via langsmith-cli, then interviews you to converge on evals you approve one at a time (LangChain). Output is a containerized Harbor task per eval under evals/<task-id>/ with instruction.md, an environment/ Dockerfile, and tests/ verifier logic. The reported lesson: single-pass generation produced weak evals, and the good ones came from inspecting both the agent's and the verifier's trajectories to catch reward-hacked shortcuts.
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Stripe published Part 2 of its Minions engineering blog, and it's the most detailed production agent architecture I've read from any company this year. The numbers alone are worth the read: 1,300+ weekly merged PRs from coding agents. But the architecture decisions matter more...
LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Google ADK, presented at Black Hat (The Register). Insecure deserialization, SSRF, path traversal, use-after-free. That's the point: prompt-controlled content crosses into trusted framework logic, and then i...
Sydney Runkle and Harrison Chase's July 22 retrospective draws a usable line: use a graph when you can encode real world-knowledge about stage order (classify → search → synthesize), don't when planning and delegation should emerge at runtime (LangChain). They cite GPT Researc...
LangChain and NVIDIA announced a combined enterprise stack: LangGraph, Deep Agents, and LangSmith with NVIDIA NIM microservices, Nemotron, NeMo Agent Toolkit, and Dynamo inference engine. LangSmith has processed over 15 billion traces and 100 trillion tokens. NIM delivers 2.6x...
The 1.4.0a2 alpha ships langchain.mcp, an MCPAdapter turning any MCP server into tools you hand straight to create_agent. Connection handling is FastMCP's rather than a reimplementation, so a URL, a local stdio script, an in-process FastMCP server, a multi-server config, or a...
Switch is Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause, turning channels in Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord into vendor-neutral shared rooms for agents built with Claude Code, Google ADK, LangChain or OpenAI (PRNewswire). Slack makes the agent a native object in its own surface; SandboxA...
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