Tooling
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- Agents & Tooling
Give a shared AI assistant a weekly checkup, and keep what it adds terse
Once a week, ask the assistant your team shares what would improve its instructions. Keep any rules it adds succinct, and give the bot two human owners.
- Agents & Tooling
Plan big, do small
A big model should plan the work and find the tools, libraries and free databases that already exist. Smaller models, or programs on your own computer, do what I like to call the donkey work.
- Agents & Tooling
Logo.dev Returns a Company's Logo From Its Web Address, and Its MCP Server Lets Claude Fetch It
Logo.dev returns a company's logo, colours and brand details from its web address. Here is what it does, how to connect it to Claude, and what to use it for.
- Agents & Tooling
Gems Are Becoming Skills, but I Can Find My Gems, Not My Skills
I am using Gemini more and more for editorial and creative work. I like it for developing ideas and roughing out illustrations, while I tend to use other tools for purely operational jobs. That has meant spending quite a bit of time playing with Gems.
- Agents & Tooling
OpenClaw versus Paperclip
I tried OpenClaw to coordinate agents from a Rabbit R1 and it turned into engineering for engineering's sake. I went back to Paperclip, and it is getting a lot better.
- Security & Risk
Trail of Bits’ coop gives coding agents their own working environment
coop runs Claude Code and Codex in disposable virtual machines, with project sync and controls for connecting files, credentials and local models.
- Agents & Tooling
How developers organise and maintain agent skills
An Ask HN discussion describes skills as repeatable workflows, with shared repositories, human review, behavioural tests and updates across coding tools.
- Security & Risk
Gemini’s saved instructions now carry across more Workspace apps
Google is extending shared preferences across Workspace. Users can save instructions in conversation, manage them in settings and see which shaped a response.
- Security & Risk
AI agents compressed a conventional intrusion into ten hours
Unit 42 investigated an intrusion run through AI agents in under ten hours. Its own report says no novel zero-day was needed, a human made the decisions.
- Agents & Tooling
Multiverse Marketed a Compressed GLM 5.2 as 'Europe's Leading AI Model'
A Spanish company launched a 438B reasoning model as Europe's best. Its API changelog, and a Community Note all point at a Chinese open-weight base.
- Security & Risk
Google signed the letter asking for cyber-capable AI, then gated its cyber model
156 companies called for a surge in cyber defence on 27 August. On 2 September Google shipped its most capable security model to trusted defenders.
- Agents & Tooling
Most of the sources behind Perplexity's software recommendations sit outside the top 100,000 websites
Trellner put 380 software categories to Perplexity and kept every citation. 59.8% pointed at domains ranked worse than #100,000.
- Security & Risk
OpenAI Wants Your Trust, Your Calendar and Your Card
OpenAI paused frontier training and wound down its side projects. The product it is refocusing on asks for your calendar, your finances and your card.
- Security & Risk
Perplexity brings hybrid frontier and local AI to your Mac
Hybrid compute runs a classifier on your Mac to decide what reaches the cloud. The admin rules and the record of what left are Enterprise features.
- Agents & Tooling
Runway's Solaris generates app interfaces frame by frame, with no code
Runway's first Interface World Model generates a UI frame by frame with no code underneath. Accessibility is on its own list of unsolved problems.
- Security & Risk
An agent's tool list shows what you wired into it
A ChatGPT Work session published its tool and skill inventory as a public website. The category names show which integrations that session had been given.
- Agents & Tooling
The magic in agent interfaces still needs an off switch
Two instincts about talking to agents: make the explicit path reliable, or design the naming away.
- Agents & Tooling
Cloudflare can now see some MCP traffic, and the gap is the point
Cloudflare is clear that its absence proves nothing, which makes this a network inventory signal rather than a census of agent activity.
- Security & Risk
The robot arm will obey the limits you remembered to write down
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets agents drive lab instruments over MCP, and enforces safety limits below the agent.
- Agents & Tooling
WebMCP could make browser agents less clumsy. It also makes permission design unavoidable.
A proposed browser API gives AI agents structured access to specific tasks on a website, instead of leaving them to guess at the UI.
