AI Agents
Autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows and orchestration.
45 published articles
Design Tools
Open Design 0.18.0 ends the 'is this the latest version?' meeting
Open Design 0.18.0 ships a shared Team workspace with live read-only mirrors and lets Codex call the design engine headlessly. 115 pull requests from 22 contributors landed in two days. Here's what changed and the agent-tooling trend it fits.
2026-08-21
Agent Memory
TEPA: for AI agents, a stale memory is worse than none
Agent memory has a falsifiability problem, a new arXiv preprint argues: stale facts stay retrievable and pollute the prompt. Its TEPA mechanism revokes superseded memories, and in drift tests naive memory scored below no memory (0.210 vs 0.309) while TEPA reached 0.950.
2026-08-19
AI Agents
PsychoAgent gave AI agents emotional memory. The raters found no edge
PsychoAgent gives LLM agents a separate affective memory so emotionally salient, conflict-laden traces can outweigh merely topical ones. In three conflict scenarios it retrieved more conflict-critical memories than both baselines (0.933 vs 0.500 and 0.667), yet five blinded raters found no significant quality edge.
2026-08-19
Agentic coding & prompt bloat
Catastrophic remembering: why CLAUDE.md files grow 226% and never shrink
An arXiv study of 1,867 repositories finds agentic coding instruction files like CLAUDE.md triple in size over their lifetime, because deleting a line risks regressions once its rationale is lost. The authors name it catastrophic remembering and show documenting the reasoning cuts excess instructions by 99.3%.
2026-08-15
AI Research
Stop copy-pasting skills: SkillZip's evaluation-free fix for bloated agents
Self-evolving agents append fixes until the same rule appears across several branches. SkillZip compresses their skills without evaluation rollouts, by finding the shortest faithful structural explanation. One-shot and Zip-on-Write modes, and what the abstract leaves unproven.
2026-08-15
AI Agents
When agent skills backfire, SkillProx prunes them like gradient descent
Skills were supposed to make agents smarter, but every fix they accumulate can make them dumber. SkillProx runs a proximal-gradient-inspired forward-backward loop that diagnoses, rolls back, and deletes. Result: a 3.0 point average accuracy gain over the strongest gradient-based baseline.
2026-08-14
Terminal Security
The '$HOME' trap: AI coding agents need sandboxes, not 'allow?' prompts
Qoder's terminal sandbox blocks close to a hundred destructive agent commands every day. The cases behind those blocks explain why 'allow?' prompts fail: a project folder named $HOME, a cleanup that targeted /root, and a click that nearly cost an entire disk.
2026-08-13
Clinical AI: heart-failure phenotyping preprint
nMAS automates heart-failure EHR features, tested only on 500 dummy patients
nMAS, a multi-agent pipeline, generated 132 structured and 70 rubric-scored features from 500 dummy patient records, lifting held-out HFrEF phenotyping AUROC from 0.895 to 0.963. The preprint has not been validated on real patient data.
2026-08-13
Qoder Computer Use
One engineer shipped a macOS agent without knowing Swift
An engineer who could not read Swift shipped production-grade macOS software with Qoder's Computer Use. His approach: judge code by behavior, make the Agent generate its own tests, and keep every lesson in the file system so no round starts from zero.
2026-08-12
AI Agents & DevOps: STAROps inside Qoder
A one-sentence question in Qoder ends the 40-minute root-cause hunt
Alibaba Cloud's STAROps plugin brings natural-language root-cause diagnosis into the Qoder IDE. Its demo takes a P95 spike from under 60ms to 1.9 seconds, returns an evidence chain at 80% confidence, and ends with an auto-created merge request. Traditional troubleshooting ran 40-plus minutes across five platforms.
2026-08-09
Agentic UI
Qoder Canvas: a design system built for agents, not humans
Alibaba's Qoder team argues the chat window is the wrong container for complex agent output. Qoder Canvas applies design-system thinking to agent interfaces, teaching agents to build interactive, codebase-aware artifacts instead of walls of Markdown.
2026-08-07
AI Coding
OpenCode bets token efficiency wins, adding Ling 3.0 Flash for free
OpenCode now offers inclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash for free, days after release. The move extends a cost-conscious strategy betting that token efficiency wins the AI coding race.
2026-08-07