Context Window is the daily AI brief for applied AI builders. Subscribe free →

Sunday, October 11, 2026

← Oct 12Oct 10 →

Feature

DIY Decision Models: A Shift in AI Infrastructure

Building your own decision model is gaining traction as developers seek more control over AI workflows.

Why it mattersThe shift towards custom decision models reflects a growing demand for AI systems that are tailored to specific tasks, offering developers more control and optimization opportunities. This trend reveals new challenges in model design, integration, and infrastructure support.

Read full article →

Sign up for the daily AI brief

Each morning: models, tools, research, and conversations distilled from across the web — with why they matter for builders.

Around the Web

AI Agents in Action

Cross-harness agents messaging?

Within the same harness, agents get inter-agent messaging by default. But what happens when you want two agents on two different harnesses (and hosts) to communicate? When on the same host, I tried having them both leav…

r/AI_Agents

How do people build batch agents now?

I recently talked with a few people who are building agents, and their use cases are showing some common patterns. A few examples of what they are building: 1. Spin up an agent read team to attack the agent under test t…

r/AI_Agents

Tools

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Trending AI model on Hugging Face — image-text-to-text.

🤗huggingface

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 32,316

anywhere-labs/dsh-desktop

为 DeepSeek Harness (DSH) 插件生态打造的现代化桌面端解决方案。万物皆「插件」,桌面本身也是「插件」。

github | stars 30,441

Build

Research

Playbooks

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

Agent Harness: Making your claw production-ready

Part 4 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. Over the last three parts our personal finance assistant grew from a single tool into a genuinely capable agent: it plans, reads your portf…

devblogs.microsoft

News