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  1. Daily

    GPT-6 Astra's score hinges on its harness, and agents rot geometrically with each step

    Plus: Cursor agents in Vercel microVMs, Composio's six missing primitives, ACLE-MCP. 5 min.

    Sep 04, 2026 · 5 min

    Two identical machine cores on a workbench. The left one is wrapped in pipes and a feedback loop with a gauge reading near full. The right one is bare with a single pipe and a gauge reading past halfway.
  2. Daily

    Google's Mantis bug-fixing harness, and privilege escalation in 12 agent harnesses

    Plus: Cline's 11M-user rollout, ContextPipe, and Claude driving your desktop. 5 min.

    Sep 03, 2026 · 5 min

    A side view of a four-station assembly line. A magnifying glass, a sorting tray, a sealed bell jar holding a beetle with a gauge, and a workbench with a patch. Small clipboard figures inspect each station from above. A gate sits between the jar and the workbench.
  3. Daily

    Anthropic's deliberately misaligned model, Fable 5.1, and a fix for reward hacking

    Plus: escalation channels cut reward hacking, memory that rots, Copilot approvals. 6 min.

    Sep 02, 2026 · 6 min

    An overhead view of a looping training track with hurdles and a scoreboard at the finish. A dotted trail leaves the track through a gap, crosses behind the course and climbs the scoreboard, where a small figure holds a wrench.
  4. Daily

    Realistic prompts drop coding-agent scores, and tool filtering beats prompt rules

    Plus: 7 papers, 2 releases, one empty-handed mugger. 5 min.

    Sep 01, 2026 · 5 min

    A machine with one visible gear takes in two paper slips, one long and typed, one short and crumpled, and sends out two copies of the same part, one complete and one missing a piece.
  5. Daily

    Maersk's 100,000 corrections, preference-trap evals, and Tencent's Hy4 Preview

    Plus: guardrails at Navan, a one-way fiber, and the benchmark card that names its scaffold. 5 min.

    Aug 31, 2026 · 5 min

    A diagram of two nested loops: a small loop circles a robot at a desk, and a much larger loop around it runs through pinned screenshots, a shelf of procedure cards, and small figures making corrections.
  6. Daily

    A website summary hijacks Claude Code Auto Mode, and handoffs turn must into maybe

    Plus: ToolMinimize, StarHarness, Cursor in the AI SDK harness layer. 6 min.

    Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min

    A web page on the left, a ribbon of its text passing through an open gate with an empty stool beside it, ending as the prompt line inside a terminal window on the right.
  7. Daily

    Compaction erases agent safety rules, and CLAUDE.md prose isn't a control

    Plus: Vercel's Run SDK, Scroll's executable context, and why the brainstorm converged. 5 min.

    Aug 26, 2026 · 5 min

    Five frames in a row, each holding a shorter version of a text sheet, with one heavy line that fades out by the fourth frame.
  8. Daily

    Poisoned agent memory beats screening, and prompt rules keep failing as boundaries

    Plus: bash-sed-cat at AIDAChip, a breach in Thailand, 8 quick links. 5 min.

    Aug 25, 2026 · 5 min

    A wall of small filing drawers behind a checkpoint desk. A guard robot stamps a queue of identical index cards approved while a mechanical arm hands one retrieved card to a second robot.
  9. Daily

    v0 keeps OAuth tokens out of generated code, plus SkillGate and Temporal's harness

    Plus: 4 papers, 2 talks, and a meme about durable execution. 5 min.

    Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min

    A transparent box containing a computer and a code-covered paper. An arrow exits through a slot, passes a guard booth outside the box where a mechanical arm adds a key to it, then continues to a warehouse marked with a snowflake. The only key hangs inside the booth.
  10. Daily

    Malicious skills hijack agents mid-task, and debate training curbs reward hacking

    Plus: an unverified OpenAI sandbox story and a fail-closed runtime. 5 min.

    Aug 20, 2026 · 5 min

    A map with a start flag and a finish flag connected by a faint dotted line, while a bold path detours in a wide loop through three tollbooths before rejoining and reaching the finish, marked with a checkmark.
  11. Daily

    Aborted agent branches live on in the KV cache, plus StateM's harness scaling

    Plus: coherence debt, the recall trap, Cline's open-weight evals. 5 min.

    Aug 19, 2026 · 5 min

    A diagram of two stacked pages of text. The upper page has one paragraph crossed out; the lower page shows the same paragraph intact. A small cube to the right sends thin arrows to the intact paragraph on the lower page.
  12. Daily

    Deno's Claw Patrol treats agents as untrusted software, and full history beats compaction

    Plus: 6 papers, 2 talks, a 56,000-line Fortran migration. 5 min.

    Aug 18, 2026 · 5 min

    A robot on the left holds pipes that pass through inspection windows in a central wall before reaching a database, servers and a chat bubble on the right; a key ring hangs on the far side of the wall.
  13. Weekly #1

    The score and the job came apart

    Plus: a 1983 paper that explains this week, and a privacy leak nobody has confirmed. 8 min.

    Aug 10 to Aug 16, 2026 · 8 min

    A tall measuring stick stands alone on a rolling plain while a small figure at its base looks away from it toward a tangle of forking paths that run off into the distance.
  14. Daily

    Agent leaderboards rank specialization, and the harness thesis reaches robots

    Plus: 4 papers, 3 launches, one shattered mug. 5 min.

    Aug 14, 2026 · 5 min

    A ranked bar chart with a trophy beside it dissolves toward the right into a scattered cloud of small squares at random heights.
  15. Daily

    Mind viruses spread between LLM agents, and a one-line warning nearly stops them

    Plus: Zed's Delta, Grok 4.6, and a memory harness ladder. 5 min.

    Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min

    Six small robots in a row pass a glowing speech bubble along hand to hand; it grows at each handoff until it reaches the last robot, which holds up a small card, and the bubble stops and dims.
  16. Daily

    In LangChain's benchmark, only 7% of agent turns needed a frontier model

    Plus: BDH-CQ's 29.5% on ARC-AGI 1, Meta's first Apache 2.0 model, and a TDD experiment at Thoughtworks. 5 min.

    Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min

    A rail switchyard: tracks meet at a single switch, a broad fan of tracks carries a crowded line of small freight cars one way while a narrow siding sends a single car toward a large locomotive waiting alone.
  17. Daily

    Claude Code turns auto mode on for everyone; reward-hack monitors catch 28%

    Plus: malicious skill files on arXiv, Stagehand v4, and Meta's local 30B. 5 min.

    Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min

    A conveyor of identical sealed crates rolls through a checkpoint whose barrier arm is latched upright; the inspection booth beside it is empty, with a rubber stamp left unused on the ledge.
  18. Daily

    A public harness reproduces DeepSeek's 82.7% on Terminal-Bench, 445 trials deep

    Plus: 4 talks from AI Engineer, a GitHub retirement, and sycophancy for smart people. 5 min.

    Aug 10, 2026 · 5 min

    Two matching pressure gauges read the same value: one is connected to a sealed box, the other to an open machine with all of its gears and tubing exposed and a pull-cord ready to run.