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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

GitHub Gave Its Agent Read Access to Everything. Someone Opened an Issue.

Noma Security's July 6 disclosure was almost anticlimactic. Open a public issue on a repository.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Structured Output Is Your Agent's API Contract — And It Has a Tax

Every multi-agent system eventually hits the same wall: Agent A produces a result, Agent B can't parse it, and the pipeline crashes.

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Agent Patterns · ·6 min read

MCP Enterprise Auth Tells You Who Can Connect — Not Who Can Delete

Last month, a team I advise rolled out MCP servers to 400 engineers.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

The Agent Loop Is Not Settled

Most agent frameworks agree on the loop: call the model, run a tool, feed the result back. Pydantic AI V2 and LlamaIndex Workflows 1.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Your Agent Already Knows When to Call Tools. The Decoder Doesn't Care.

Every unnecessary tool call your agent makes is a tax — latency, tokens, API fees — paid because the model defaulted to "call it anyway.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Procedural Tasks Run Better Without an Orchestrator

A team at the University of Melbourne ran 600 conversations across three domains — travel booking, tech support, insurance claims — and the orchestrated system...

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

MCP Goes Stateless — Everything You Bolted On Can Come Off

Every MCP server I've deployed in the last year needed the same ugly scaffolding: a shared session store, sticky routing at the gateway, and a...

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

MCP Moved Tasks to an Extension. That Was the Right Call.

Every agent framework demos great when the tool call returns in 200 milliseconds.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

What Survived When Microsoft Merged Its Agent Frameworks

Microsoft merged Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK and shipped it as Agent Framework 1.0 in April.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Your Agent Has 150 Tools and Can't Find Any of Them

Somebody on my team connected five MCP servers to our planning agent last month. GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, and a custom inventory service.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Re-sent Context Is 62% of Your Agent Bill

A team shipped a five-step agent workflow last month and watched their LLM costs triple overnight.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Agents Are a Workload. Treat Them Like One.

We spent 2025 arguing about which framework to wrap around an LLM. LangChain or CrewAI?

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Agent Patterns · ·6 min read

Middleware Ate the Agent Loop

Three frameworks shipped agent middleware in the same quarter. That's not a trend — that's convergent evolution under production pressure.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Agent Tools Got GUIs. The Architecture Got Messy.

Five months after the MCP Apps spec landed in January, the practical question has shifted from "should tools have UIs?

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Agent Patterns · ·6 min read

Your Agent Is Its Own Security Guard. That's the Problem.

Every prompt injection defense I've shipped has the same structural flaw: it relies on the model to police itself.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Same Weights, 25 Points Apart

Endor Labs put GPT-5.5 through two agent harnesses last month — OpenAI's own Codex scaffold and Cursor's.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Width Is a Scaling Axis Your Agent Isn't Using

Every agent framework defaults to sequential tool calling. Ask a question, get a tool call, execute it, feed the result back, repeat.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

MCP Just Killed Sessions. Your Load Balancer Will Thank You.

If you've ever debugged why your MCP server drops state after a client reconnects, you already know the punchline: sessions in MCP never worked the way you...

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

A 200 OK Does Not Mean Your Agent Worked

A production agent at a fintech returned a 200 on every request for three days. The dashboard was green.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Hermes Hit #1 on OpenRouter. The Reason Isn't the LLM.

Three months.

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