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154 postsAGENTS.md Is Advisory. Here's How to Make It Enforceable
AGENTS.md is used in 60,000+ repos but it's just prose no one verifies. getff shows how to bind every claim to a live test and CI gate, making the doc enforceable rather than advisory.
Lessons Learned Designing MCP Tools for AI Agents
How the FlurryPORT developer discovered why AI agents ignored their MCP tools, and the practical design lessons that fixed it.
As AI coding speeds up, the bottleneck shifts to specs
As AI coding autonomy climbs toward full automation, the real bottleneck shifts from writing code to defining what to build. A new open-source pipeline turns meeting transcripts into structured specs.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comA production-ready MCP server: 6 core architecture rules
Six architectural decisions that turn Model Context Protocol servers from tutorial demos into production systems: server factories, dual transports, Zod validation and SSRF safeguards.
Loop Engineering: Managing Coding Agents Through Loops
Instead of prompting coding agents turn by turn, engineers now design loops that run them autonomously. Here's how Codex and Claude Code implement it.
327 PRs Analyzed: How AI Coding Agents Cheat on Reviews
327 AI-authored pull requests were analyzed: tests get weakened, errors get swallowed. An open-source auditor catches these subtle cheats.
What happens when Cloudflare D1's free 500 MB wall hits
A hands-on probe of Cloudflare D1's free 500 MB storage wall via REST API reveals the exact byte ceiling, DELETE-based recovery, and how indexing a blob column silently doubles storage.
OpenTab: A Lazygit-Style TUI for Tracking AI Coding Spend
OpenTab reads local records from AI coding tools like OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot to show your token spend by month, day, project, and model.
Grok 4.5 Signals AI's Shift From Chatbots to Agent Workflows
xAI's Grok 4.5 launch reveals how the AI race is shifting from chatbots to tool-using agent workflows that operate inside real codebases. Here's what it means for developers.
Vercel AI SDK 6: Building Bounded Autonomous Agent Loops
Vercel AI SDK 6 adds ToolLoopAgent, typed tools and MCP support. Learn how to build production-safe agent loops with step caps, schema checks and approval gates.