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Training a Harness: Achieving Model and Task Agnostic AI Systems

Developers can now optimize AI models without altering the core systems by tuning harnesses.

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Local Model Developments

Unsloth now supports AMD!

Hey r/LocalLLaMA folks! Unsloth now officially supports AMD hardware for local inference, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and deployment! It's been in the works for quite some time, but it works on Windows, Linux &…

r/LocalLLaMA

AI Creativity Conundrums

What actually makes human creativity different from AI?

I've been thinking a lot about artificial intelligence and creativity lately. As someone living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, technology has been one of the greatest enablers in my life. It has given me opportuni…

r/artificial

Honorable mentions

AI race

We are just watching at the moment...

r/OpenAI

Tools

ultraworkers/claw-code

An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

github | stars 194,843

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

github | stars 86,503

nexu-io/open-design

🎨 The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images &…

github | stars 79,942

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

github | stars 40,432

esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix

DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.

github | stars 27,402

zai-org/GLM-5.2

Trending AI model on Hugging Face — text-generation.

🤗huggingface

Research

Playbooks

Meet your agent harness and claw

Part 1 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In the overview we said a “claw” is really just an agent harness: a loop around a model, wired up with tools, planning, memory, and more. I…

devblogs.microsoft

A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products

Most AI teams focus on the wrong things. Here’s a common scene from my consulting work: AI TEAM Here’s our agent architecture – we’ve got RAG here, a router there, and we’re using this new framework for… ME [Holding up…

hamel

Demystifying evals for AI agents

The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of the systems they measure. \n

anthropic

Agent Skills for Python Is Now Released

Your Python agents can now pick up reusable bundles of domain expertise (instructions, reference material, and scripts that load only when a task calls for them) through a stable, production-ready API. Agent Skills for…

devblogs.microsoft

Evals Skills for Coding Agents

Today, I’m publishing evals-skills , a set of skills for AI product evals 1 . They guard against common mistakes I’ve seen helping 50+ companies and teaching 4,000+ students in our course . Why Skills for Evals Coding a…

hamel

Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities

Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it reads your portfolio, asks before it trades, and remembers wha…

devblogs.microsoft

News

Quoting Sam Altman

We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. We will discuss it more at our next board meeting, but one thing we’d like to do soon is to create a language model with the approximate capability…

simonwillison

Choosing the Right MCP Server for Production AI Agents

The Right MCP Server for Your Agent Stack The open standard Anthropic published in November 2024 has moved faster than most anticipated. MCP now sits beneath a growing layer of production agent workflows, and the infras…

cloudtweaks

How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS

In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, governance, scaling and deployment, and the AI-specific optim…

aws.amazon