Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
Top Hacker News discussion.
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Deep Agents Bind Tools to Skills for Improved AI Context Efficiency
LangChain's Deep Agents now allow binding tools to specific skills, enhancing context management and task execution.
Why it mattersThe evolution of AI agents' context management, particularly through tool-to-skill bindings, presents new challenges in security and scalability. Developers must now address these complexities to optimize AI performance while maintaining robust security measures.
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Claude's Latest Moves
I'm not paying $20 for ChatGPT or Claude because a free local LLM does
Top Hacker News discussion.
xda-developers
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released. On average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5. Haiku 5.5 is designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks…
r/ClaudeCode
AI Agents in Action
Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools
Top Hacker News discussion.
agent
How are you securing your AI infrastructure?
As agents start getting access to internal systems and taking actions on their own the security boundary gets harder to pin down. A lot of the controls we already have were built around a person using one app. An agent…
r/AI_Agents
Who here uses AI agents but hates creating accounts for every single tool?
I’ve been playing around with AI agents quite a bit lately, and one thing is driving me crazy. Every time an agent needs a new tool, you end up creating another account, adding a credit card, subscribing to another plan…
r/AI_Agents
Tools
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 157,500
NandhaKishorM/laya
Non-autoregressive System 1 decision engine. Typed choice, score and yes/no decisions over any text in a single forward pass, in 100+ languages, with a router that picks the right…
github | stars 31,402
Build
Show HN: Collision avoidance in industrial robotics using robotsimulator.ai
Fresh Show HN launch.
babacad
How Netflix Taught an LLM to Recommend Movies So That You Keep Watching
In this article, we will look at how GenRec was built.
blog.bytebytego
Research
AdvSim2Real : Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model
Web agents complete user requests by reading and acting on pages that third parties write, so an instruction planted on a page can redirect the agent away from the user's goal. The agent cannot simply ignore the page, b…
arxiv
Secure Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models
Speculative decoding accelerates inference for a large language model (LLM), referred to as the \emph{target model}, by first using a smaller model, referred to as the \emph{draft model}, to generate candidate tokens an…
arxiv
Agent in a Bottle: Can LLM Agents Turn Their Capabilities Into Cheap, Scalable Artifacts?
Large language models (LLMs) can solve many narrow tasks, but querying them separately for millions of related instances can be prohibitively expensive. Can LLM agents autonomously create cheaper solutions for such work…
arxiv
Playbooks
Revamping Skills in Deep Agents
Deep Agents now lets you bind tools to skills, pin skills at runtime, and reload skills mid-thread, so agents with expansive skill repositories stay context-efficient and effective.
langchain
Foundry hosted agent isolation with Microsoft Agent Framework
Foundry hosted agent isolation exposes two independent controls. User isolation identifies whose data may be used. At the same time, Foundry hosted session isolation identifies where code and files continue to live. For…
devblogs.microsoft
Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6’s BrowseComp performance
Evaluating Opus 4.6 on BrowseComp, we found cases where the model recognized the test, then found and decrypted answers to it—raising questions about eval integrity in web-enabled environments.
anthropic
News
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception handling, decision q…
aws.amazon
How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock
Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to give its 40,000+ customers grounded, sourced answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Learn how a layered, multi-agent architecture with cross-Region infer…
aws.amazon
This Week in Swift x AI
Reducing token usage, Agent Skills, Apple Goodies, the Autonomous Radius & more!
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