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The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

The agentic stack, tracked daily: MCP and A2A protocols, LangChain/LangGraph, Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK, agent frameworks, benchmarks and orchestration patterns.

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python-1.7.0
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Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026
Agents

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026

BUILD 2026 begins on Tuesday, June 2, and there will be tons of exciting announcements from the Microsoft Agent Framework team, Microsoft Foundry, and all thing…

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dotnet-1.6.2
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langgraph==1.2.4
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Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more
Agents

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more BUILD 2026 is underway, and the Microsoft Agent Framework team have a r…

dotnet-1.9.0
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python-1.8.0
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ICYMI: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK
Agents

ICYMI: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK

In case you missed it, the Command Line blog was launched last week and has a great article (by yours truly) about our SDK design philosophy with Microsoft Agen…

python-1.8.1
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langgraph-cli==0.4.28
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Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
Labs

Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.…

Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
Briefing

Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wir…

Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Skills let you encode domain-specific procedures as reusable, portable instructions for agents, but a fluent answer doesn't prove the agent picked the right ski…

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Practice

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS

Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic's most capable Opus model for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude P…

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Create

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. You can use it for agentic coding, long-running agentic tasks, and kno…

Extending public sector intelligence with Agentforce and AWS
Practice

Extending public sector intelligence with Agentforce and AWS

Public sector agencies process large volumes of unstructured evidence, such as body camera footage and scanned documents. This post shows how to combine Amazon …

How Trane gets building insights 60x faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

How Trane gets building insights 60x faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In about four weeks, Trane Technologies built an AI-powered agentic solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that reduced a 20-minute, multi-screen building diagnos…

How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Practice

How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Reactiv used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build a multi-agent AI Scheduler that autonomously refreshes Shopify merchants' mobile apps on a schedule, reducing mer…

Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent
Briefing

Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent

Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The…

NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development
Labs

NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development

To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and to…