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Buzz: A Unified Platform for Team Chat, AI Agents, and Git Hosting

Jack Dorsey's Buzz blends communication, AI integration, and code management, but faces skepticism over complexity and security.

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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 194,854

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 87,747

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 80,665

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant int…

github | stars 41,126

esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix

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

github | stars 27,553

Research

Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment

Agentic systems large language model (LLM) based architectures capable of reasoning, planning, acting, and coordinating with tools and other agents are rapidly transitioning from research prototypes to production scale…

arxiv

Playbooks

The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released

Your agents can now be built on a stable, batteries-included harness – the loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and telemetry that turn a model into an agent that actually does things – in both Python…

devblogs.microsoft

3 Years of Graph Engineering with LangGraph

Graph engineering isn't a new idea. It's the latest name for a well established approach to building reliable agents. It's the same idea behind loop engineering and harness engineering: building putting model reasoning…

langchain

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

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

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 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

News

Introducing OpenAI Presence

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

openai

Podcast: Strands Agents with Clare Liguori

Thomas Betts talks with Clare Liguori, the technical lead on the open source Strands Agents SDK. The conversation covers how Strands Agents has grown from a Python SDK to a full agent harness running in production. Clar…

infoq

Advancing the next era of national science

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

openai