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Finally, an open-source runtime security layer for your agent harnesses. AI agents can call tools, run shell commands, modify files, and interact with production systems. But when something goes wrong, teams often have to reconstruct what the agent actually did from scattered logs after the fact. Agent Beacon is... built to change that. It runs locally and records agent activity as it happens, including: → Tool calls → Shell commands → File changes → Approval decisions → Session and harness context The useful part is that it normalizes all of this into the same event format across 23+ agent harnesses. So instead of writing different detection logic for Claude Code, Codex, or another harness, security teams can reason about the underlying action itself. A command executed is a command executed, regardless of which harness produced it. Beacon also records how confidently an event was captured. An action can be directly observed from the runtime or inferred from indirect evidence. That matters when you start writing security rules against this data. For example, you can detect when an agent reads an environment variable, modifies a sensitive file, executes a suspicious command, or performs an action without the expected approval. And the detection happens while the session is still unfolding, not days later during incident reconstruction. Everything runs locally by default. You can inspect sessions through the dashboard, write your own detection rules, or forward the same normalized events to tools like Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Sentinel, or CrowdStrike. Beacon GitHub: (don't forget to star 🌟) I also wrote a detailed article on the same, covering how important runtime security is and how to build it for your agent harnesses. The article is quoted below.show more

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Asymptote Labs 的头像

Asymptote Labs3 天前

Check out Beacon and let us know what you think:

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TH33ORACL3 𝕏3 天前

the agent can touch production, but at least the postmortem can stop asking which terminal tab had the keys.

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Hadi Saeed2 天前

So basically a flight recorder for AI agents lol. Needed this badly, my Claude Code and Cursor setup has zero telemetry right now. Installing tonight

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Danny Mehditash3 天前

Normalizing across 23+ harnesses into one event format is the part that actually matters. Most teams write detection logic per-tool and it rots the moment someone swaps Claude Code for Codex. Confidence-tagging inferred vs observed events is the right call too, treating both the same way is how you get false positives nobody trusts.

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Shukan Shah2 天前

Well said @akshay_pachaar! The world needed this!

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IronRed | SandHive3 天前

All those agent events generate a flood of data, and picking the right insight to share can waste hours. SandHive finds the right threads and lets you decide what goes online. If you found this helpful, reshare with your network. Find me →

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Brad Robinson3 天前

If you cannot replay the agent’s first git call, you cannot audit the default. Steal: log `git status` before trust — not only the model output.

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Kravn3 天前

when a harness does something the event schema doesn't have a slot for yet, does Beacon drop it or flag it as unknown?

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Leliu2 天前

Agent Beacon addresses a critical gap in AI agent security.

Egor 的头像

Egor3 天前

capture confidence lets teams tune rules to evidence quality

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ZeroX2 天前

an open-source runtime security layer for agent harnesses is overdue when agents touch shell and prod. what's the first signal teams actually look at after an incident?

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Elledyne Labs2 天前

normalization is the only part that survives a codex to claude swap. on podcode we ended up writing our own event format because the harness logs all looked like slightly different dialects of the same thing.

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Sai sharan2 天前

The audit trail needs tool args, policy decisions, and resulting state—not just a transcript. Otherwise replaying the incident is still guesswork.

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Winter3 天前

inferred events should trigger different rules than observed ones

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105,343 次观看 • 1 年前

Everyone's handing AI agents access to their machine. Almost nobody's watching what those agents actually do with it. Perplexity just open-sourced the tool that fixes that. It's called Numbat. It sits on your computer and watches what your coding agent, Claude Code, Codex, and others, actually tries to do. When an agent reaches for something risky, like reading your SSH keys, opening your .env file, or grabbing browser cookies, Numbat flags it, and can block it before it happens. - Watches agent activity live, on your own device - Optionally blocks dangerous actions before they run - Reconstructs exactly what an agent did after the fact - Ships as a single binary for macOS, Linux, & Windows The problem it solves isn't hackers. It's an agent chasing a goal and doing something destructive on the way there. 100% Free. Open Source.

Everyone's handing AI agents access to their machine. Almost nobody's watching what those agents actually do with it. Perplexity just open-sourced the tool that fixes that. It's called Numbat. It sits on your computer and watches what your coding agent, Claude Code, Codex, and others, actually tries to do. When an agent reaches for something risky, like reading your SSH keys, opening your .env file, or grabbing browser cookies, Numbat flags it, and can block it before it happens. - Watches agent activity live, on your own device - Optionally blocks dangerous actions before they run - Reconstructs exactly what an agent did after the fact - Ships as a single binary for macOS, Linux, & Windows The problem it solves isn't hackers. It's an agent chasing a goal and doing something destructive on the way there. 100% Free. Open Source.

Simplifying AI

32,497 次观看 • 1 个月前

AI AGENTS 101 (58 minute free masterclass) send this to anyone who wants to understand ai agents, claude skills, md files, how to get the most out of AI etc in plain english: 1. chat vs agents - chat models answer questions in a back and forth while agents take a goal, figure out the steps, and deliver a result 2. agents don’t stop after one response. they keep running until the task is actually finishedno babysitting required 3. everything runs on a loop. they gather context, decide what to do, take an action, then repeat until done 4. the loop is the system. they look at files, tools, and the internet. decide the next step. execute and then feed that back into the next step. over and over until completion 5. the model is just one piece. gpt, claude, gemini are the reasoning layer. the key is model + loop + tools + context 6. mcp is how agents use tools. it connects things like browser, code, apis, and your internal software. once connected, the agent decides when to use them to get the job done 7. context beats prompt all day. you don't need to write perfect prompts. load your agent with context about your business, style, and goals and then simple instructions work 8. claude.md or agents.md is the onboarding doc it tells the agent who it is, how to behave, what it knows, and what tools it can use. this gets loaded every time before it starts 9. memory.md is how it improves. agents don’t remember by default. this file stores preferences, corrections, and patterns you tell the agent to update it, and it gets better over time 10. skills + harnesses make it usable. skills are reusable tasks like writing, research, analysis the harness is the environment like claude code or openclaw that runs everything. basiclaly, different interfaces, same system underneath this episode with remy on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 was one of the clearest ways of understanding a lot of the core concepts of ai agents could be the best beginners course for ai agents 58 mins. all free. no advertisers. i just want to see you build cool stuff. im rooting for you. send to a friend watch

AI AGENTS 101 (58 minute free masterclass) send this to anyone who wants to understand ai agents, claude skills, md files, how to get the most out of AI etc in plain english: 1. chat vs agents - chat models answer questions in a back and forth while agents take a goal, figure out the steps, and deliver a result 2. agents don’t stop after one response. they keep running until the task is actually finishedno babysitting required 3. everything runs on a loop. they gather context, decide what to do, take an action, then repeat until done 4. the loop is the system. they look at files, tools, and the internet. decide the next step. execute and then feed that back into the next step. over and over until completion 5. the model is just one piece. gpt, claude, gemini are the reasoning layer. the key is model + loop + tools + context 6. mcp is how agents use tools. it connects things like browser, code, apis, and your internal software. once connected, the agent decides when to use them to get the job done 7. context beats prompt all day. you don't need to write perfect prompts. load your agent with context about your business, style, and goals and then simple instructions work 8. claude.md or agents.md is the onboarding doc it tells the agent who it is, how to behave, what it knows, and what tools it can use. this gets loaded every time before it starts 9. memory.md is how it improves. agents don’t remember by default. this file stores preferences, corrections, and patterns you tell the agent to update it, and it gets better over time 10. skills + harnesses make it usable. skills are reusable tasks like writing, research, analysis the harness is the environment like claude code or openclaw that runs everything. basiclaly, different interfaces, same system underneath this episode with remy on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 was one of the clearest ways of understanding a lot of the core concepts of ai agents could be the best beginners course for ai agents 58 mins. all free. no advertisers. i just want to see you build cool stuff. im rooting for you. send to a friend watch

GREG ISENBERG

377,138 次观看 • 5 个月前

Right now, I have a few dozen tools to automate my life. Every single thing that I do more than once every week is now a tool: either a Claude Code skill, a scheduled workflow, or an application. • I spend the time doing this once. • I schedule it. • I forget about it (or at least, try to) CREAO is one of the platforms I've used extensively for building some of these automations. They are partnering with me on this post. They are one of the only platforms where you can go from a conversation to a scheduled agent that quickly. This is how it works: 1. You describe the problem you want to solve 2. CREAO's agent builds the logic and executes it 3. You can iterate with the agent to improve the solution 4. When you are done, you turn that solution into a mini app 5. You can schedule that app to run any time you need it Something important: These agents are deterministic. They don't use an LLM to generate answers, so they will always return the same output given the same input. This is critical: when you're automating something that runs every Monday at 9 am, you need it to return the same result every time, not a "creative" answer.

Right now, I have a few dozen tools to automate my life. Every single thing that I do more than once every week is now a tool: either a Claude Code skill, a scheduled workflow, or an application. • I spend the time doing this once. • I schedule it. • I forget about it (or at least, try to) CREAO is one of the platforms I've used extensively for building some of these automations. They are partnering with me on this post. They are one of the only platforms where you can go from a conversation to a scheduled agent that quickly. This is how it works: 1. You describe the problem you want to solve 2. CREAO's agent builds the logic and executes it 3. You can iterate with the agent to improve the solution 4. When you are done, you turn that solution into a mini app 5. You can schedule that app to run any time you need it Something important: These agents are deterministic. They don't use an LLM to generate answers, so they will always return the same output given the same input. This is critical: when you're automating something that runs every Monday at 9 am, you need it to return the same result every time, not a "creative" answer.

Santiago

13,727 次观看 • 5 个月前

Hermes agent just left the terminal. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽 dropped yesterday. native app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. for months Hermes was the agent that learned your projects, wrote its own skills, and built a model of who you are. all of it buried in terminal logs. now it has a window. the important part is that it's not a wrapper. it runs the same agent core, the same sessions, memory, and skills as the CLI. you can start a task in the terminal and finish it in the app without anything resetting. the state is shared across every interface, not copied between them. what the GUI actually adds: → streaming chat that shows live tool calls and inline reasoning instead of a spinner → a preview rail that renders pages, code, and images right beside the conversation → an artifacts panel that collects every file the agent has ever produced → remote gateway mode, so you can point the app at a VPS and run the heavy work elsewhere → skills, cron, profiles, and gateways managed point-and-click instead of through YAML → voice mode, drag-drop files, and inline image generation remote gateway mode is the one worth slowing down on. the agent runs 24/7 on a $5 server while you control it from your laptop like a local app. other agent UIs are chatboxes with a logo. this one shows the autonomy instead of hiding it, so you watch the skills load, the tools fire, and the artifacts pile up as it works. it was teased in Jensen's GTC keynote. MIT licensed, local-first, no telemetry. if you already run Hermes, download it and everything is already there. your chats, memory, and skills carry straight over. i wrote a full masterclass on Hermes Agent that walks through the SOUL. md identity layer, the three-tier memory system, the self-evolving skills loop, and how to run three specialized agents 24/7. desktop is the interface that finally does all of it justice. the article is quoted below.

Akshay 🚀

51,540 次观看 • 3 个月前

This one is for builders who want an agent that can operate their computer. Today, we're releasing HoloDesktop CLI. Powered by Holo3 models, it brings H Agent directly into the agent harnesses you already use, including Claude R Perrin Code, Hermes Trismegistus, Cursor, and others. It runs locally on your device with low latency, full privacy, and no runtime cost. Most AI tooling assumes work happens through APIs. In reality, much of the world's work still happens in interfaces built for humans: browsers, desktop applications, spreadsheets, internal tools, and software with no API. HoloDesktop CLI gives agents the ability to see, understand, and act on these environments through the mouse and keyboard. From testing web applications through their GUI to navigating enterprise software, extracting information from documents, or interacting with internal tools, agents can now operate where work actually happens. We believe AI shouldn't just reason about work. It should be able to operate where work happens. #NVIDIA #ComputerUse #EnterpriseAI #DeveloperTools

This one is for builders who want an agent that can operate their computer. Today, we're releasing HoloDesktop CLI. Powered by Holo3 models, it brings H Agent directly into the agent harnesses you already use, including Claude R Perrin Code, Hermes Trismegistus, Cursor, and others. It runs locally on your device with low latency, full privacy, and no runtime cost. Most AI tooling assumes work happens through APIs. In reality, much of the world's work still happens in interfaces built for humans: browsers, desktop applications, spreadsheets, internal tools, and software with no API. HoloDesktop CLI gives agents the ability to see, understand, and act on these environments through the mouse and keyboard. From testing web applications through their GUI to navigating enterprise software, extracting information from documents, or interacting with internal tools, agents can now operate where work actually happens. We believe AI shouldn't just reason about work. It should be able to operate where work happens. #NVIDIA #ComputerUse #EnterpriseAI #DeveloperTools

H

29,953 次观看 • 2 个月前

Another blow to Anthropic! They spent months building what's now fully open-source. Anthropic recently put Claude inside Slack, where you can tag it in a channel. It reads the thread, breaks the task into steps, and posts the result back. The problem is that it only runs Claude and only in the channels Anthropic supports. Running your own agent there is harder. The reasoning, tool calls, and state management are mostly handled by the framework. Connecting that agent to a messaging platform is not. Moreover, each platform has a different integration: - Slack renders messages with Block Kit - Teams uses Adaptive Cards - and each has its own SDK, auth flow, and delivery model. If an agent needs to run on three platforms, one must write three separate integrations against the same agent logic. That overhead explains why most custom agents never get deployed to Slack, and why the ones that do are usually a single vendor's hosted assistant. The alternative is to keep the agent in one place and add a per-platform adapter that translates its output into each platform's native format. The agent is written once, and each channel requires just another output target instead of a separate build. CopilotKit open-sourced this full implementation in the Channels SDK. Essentially, any agent that implements AG-UI can run in a messaging platform in a few lines of code, like Slack, Teams, Discord, WhatsApp, and many more. Because the agent runs inside the thread, it has that conversation's context, so it can summarize the discussion, open a ticket, or route to the right person. It works with any backend, so LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, Google ADK, or a plain HTTP agent can connect through an existing endpoint. The same message can render as a Block Kit in Slack and as Adaptive Cards in Teams. In practice, the model and orchestration stay the same; it requires no migration or rewrite. It also handles human-in-the-loop approvals, persistence, and transcripts that carry state across platforms, so a thread started in Teams can continue in Slack. CopilotKit is open-source, and AG-UI is supported across every major agent framework, including LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, and Google ADK. Here's the repo: (don't forget to star it ⭐) The agent running in Slack no longer has to be a vendor's. It can be the one you already built. The video below shows this in action. Thanks to CopilotKit for working with me on this launch.

Another blow to Anthropic! They spent months building what's now fully open-source. Anthropic recently put Claude inside Slack, where you can tag it in a channel. It reads the thread, breaks the task into steps, and posts the result back. The problem is that it only runs Claude and only in the channels Anthropic supports. Running your own agent there is harder. The reasoning, tool calls, and state management are mostly handled by the framework. Connecting that agent to a messaging platform is not. Moreover, each platform has a different integration: - Slack renders messages with Block Kit - Teams uses Adaptive Cards - and each has its own SDK, auth flow, and delivery model. If an agent needs to run on three platforms, one must write three separate integrations against the same agent logic. That overhead explains why most custom agents never get deployed to Slack, and why the ones that do are usually a single vendor's hosted assistant. The alternative is to keep the agent in one place and add a per-platform adapter that translates its output into each platform's native format. The agent is written once, and each channel requires just another output target instead of a separate build. CopilotKit open-sourced this full implementation in the Channels SDK. Essentially, any agent that implements AG-UI can run in a messaging platform in a few lines of code, like Slack, Teams, Discord, WhatsApp, and many more. Because the agent runs inside the thread, it has that conversation's context, so it can summarize the discussion, open a ticket, or route to the right person. It works with any backend, so LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, Google ADK, or a plain HTTP agent can connect through an existing endpoint. The same message can render as a Block Kit in Slack and as Adaptive Cards in Teams. In practice, the model and orchestration stay the same; it requires no migration or rewrite. It also handles human-in-the-loop approvals, persistence, and transcripts that carry state across platforms, so a thread started in Teams can continue in Slack. CopilotKit is open-source, and AG-UI is supported across every major agent framework, including LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, and Google ADK. Here's the repo: (don't forget to star it ⭐) The agent running in Slack no longer has to be a vendor's. It can be the one you already built. The video below shows this in action. Thanks to CopilotKit for working with me on this launch.

Akshay 🚀

243,930 次观看 • 1 个月前

ERC-8004, explained. ERC-8004 is an Ethereum standard for agent identity, reputation, and verification. it defines how an agent is represented onchain, and how other agents or smart contracts can reason about it without prior trust. each agent has an onchain identity (commonly an nft). that identity points to metadata describing what the agent does, how it can be reached, and how its work should be verified. the heavy data stays offchain; the reference and integrity live onchain. ERC-8004 also standardizes reputation. agents can accumulate attestations from past work so they don’t start from zero every time they interact. no centralized registry, no app-specific schemas, no gatekeepers. verification is explicit. contracts or third parties can attest that a task was completed and conditions were met, and those attestations are addressable onchain. what ERC-8004 does not do: execution, payments, or orchestration. it’s a trust primitive, not an application. how it fits with ampersend: ERC-8004 answers “who is this agent and can i trust it?”; x402 handles “how does the agent get paid?” - separate layers. yet composable by default. for open agentic ecosystems where agents from different teams can safely interact, shared, open standards like this are essential. listen to Marco De Rossi explain ERC-8004 ⬇️

ERC-8004, explained. ERC-8004 is an Ethereum standard for agent identity, reputation, and verification. it defines how an agent is represented onchain, and how other agents or smart contracts can reason about it without prior trust. each agent has an onchain identity (commonly an nft). that identity points to metadata describing what the agent does, how it can be reached, and how its work should be verified. the heavy data stays offchain; the reference and integrity live onchain. ERC-8004 also standardizes reputation. agents can accumulate attestations from past work so they don’t start from zero every time they interact. no centralized registry, no app-specific schemas, no gatekeepers. verification is explicit. contracts or third parties can attest that a task was completed and conditions were met, and those attestations are addressable onchain. what ERC-8004 does not do: execution, payments, or orchestration. it’s a trust primitive, not an application. how it fits with ampersend: ERC-8004 answers “who is this agent and can i trust it?”; x402 handles “how does the agent get paid?” - separate layers. yet composable by default. for open agentic ecosystems where agents from different teams can safely interact, shared, open standards like this are essential. listen to Marco De Rossi explain ERC-8004 ⬇️

ampersend

13,435 次观看 • 8 个月前

My agent is now paying for its own data. No API key. No account. No credit card. Check the video I recorded. This uses the x402 open protocol built by Coinbase, along with a simple skill. This is an open protocol governed by the Linux Foundation. To complete a goal, an agent can now search for an actor on the Apify Store, pay for it, and use it without any human intervention. The way it works is pretty simple: 1. Your agent finds an Actor it wants to use 2. It sends a request 3. The Actor sends back an HTTP 402 "Payment Required" response 4. Agent authorizes payment from a wallet in USDC on Base 5. The Actor runs 6. User receives the result The model is pay-as-you-go: the agent authorizes a spending ceiling, pays only for usage, and the remaining balance is automatically settled. This brings an entire marketplace of AI tools into the agentic economy. Here is the skill you need. Add it to your agent, and it will take care of everything for you: If you want to know how this works, including what you can do with $1, read this post: Thanks to the Apify team for partnering with me on this post.

My agent is now paying for its own data. No API key. No account. No credit card. Check the video I recorded. This uses the x402 open protocol built by Coinbase, along with a simple skill. This is an open protocol governed by the Linux Foundation. To complete a goal, an agent can now search for an actor on the Apify Store, pay for it, and use it without any human intervention. The way it works is pretty simple: 1. Your agent finds an Actor it wants to use 2. It sends a request 3. The Actor sends back an HTTP 402 "Payment Required" response 4. Agent authorizes payment from a wallet in USDC on Base 5. The Actor runs 6. User receives the result The model is pay-as-you-go: the agent authorizes a spending ceiling, pays only for usage, and the remaining balance is automatically settled. This brings an entire marketplace of AI tools into the agentic economy. Here is the skill you need. Add it to your agent, and it will take care of everything for you: If you want to know how this works, including what you can do with $1, read this post: Thanks to the Apify team for partnering with me on this post.

Santiago

26,962 次观看 • 2 个月前

The reason your AI gives generic answers isn't the model. It's that your company's knowledge lives in 12 different tools and your agent can't see any of it. So here's how to build a context database your agents can actually use: 1) Pull it in: - Slack, email, meetings, docs, tickets - Auto-collected on a schedule into one place. 2) Clean it up. - An agent files what matters and drops the noise, so your brain doesn't bloat. 3) Store it as memory. - Folders of files your agents read from and write back to as they learn. 4) Point your agents at it. - Now they draft, build, and ship with full context instead of guessing. Same model. Same agent. The difference is whether it can understand your company or not. Build the database once. Everything downstream gets smarter.

The reason your AI gives generic answers isn't the model. It's that your company's knowledge lives in 12 different tools and your agent can't see any of it. So here's how to build a context database your agents can actually use: 1) Pull it in: - Slack, email, meetings, docs, tickets - Auto-collected on a schedule into one place. 2) Clean it up. - An agent files what matters and drops the noise, so your brain doesn't bloat. 3) Store it as memory. - Folders of files your agents read from and write back to as they learn. 4) Point your agents at it. - Now they draft, build, and ship with full context instead of guessing. Same model. Same agent. The difference is whether it can understand your company or not. Build the database once. Everything downstream gets smarter.

The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃

13,598 次观看 • 3 个月前

In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget. That’s the direction Anthropic is building in with its new Managed Agents features, announced at this week’s Code with Claude developer event. The basic idea: Claude, wrapped in a computer in the cloud, that you can spin up, scale, and manage as needed. Anthropic is taking on the infrastructure that kills most agent products, and making sure that it scales to meet the needs of agents running 24/7. On this week’s AI & I from Every 📧, I talk with Angela Jiang (Angela Jiang), head of product for the Claude platform, and Katelyn Lesse (Katelyn Lesse), head of engineering for the Claude platform, about what Anthropic is building and what it takes to make agents reliable in production. We get into: - Why the "build a generic harness, hot-swap any model behind it" playbook is already outdated. Angela points to eval data on Memory where the same task across different harnesses performed drastically differently. - The infrastructure wall every team hits in production—and why Katelyn thinks “my sandbox died and took the agent with it” is the real reason internal agents don't ship. - Why Anthropic is so bullish on using file systems and skills within Claude, including Angela's argument that those early design choices can compound for years. This is a must-watch for anyone trying to take an agent past the demo and into production. Watch below! Timestamps: How the Claude platform evolved from API to agents: 00:01:48 The primitives that make up Claude Managed Agents: 00:04:09 Why the harness and the model are becoming a single unit: 00:10:37 The infrastructure wall that kills most agent projects in production: 00:18:49 Why team agents need a different shape than individual productivity tools: 00:24:49 How Anthropic's legal team uses an agent to review marketing copy: 00:26:36 Using multi-agent orchestration for advisor strategies, adversarial pairs, and swarms: 00:34:24 How to measure agent success with outcome and budget as the end state: 00:35:50 What the platform looks like a year from now, when Claude writes its own harness: 00:39:11

In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget. That’s the direction Anthropic is building in with its new Managed Agents features, announced at this week’s Code with Claude developer event. The basic idea: Claude, wrapped in a computer in the cloud, that you can spin up, scale, and manage as needed. Anthropic is taking on the infrastructure that kills most agent products, and making sure that it scales to meet the needs of agents running 24/7. On this week’s AI & I from Every 📧, I talk with Angela Jiang (Angela Jiang), head of product for the Claude platform, and Katelyn Lesse (Katelyn Lesse), head of engineering for the Claude platform, about what Anthropic is building and what it takes to make agents reliable in production. We get into: - Why the "build a generic harness, hot-swap any model behind it" playbook is already outdated. Angela points to eval data on Memory where the same task across different harnesses performed drastically differently. - The infrastructure wall every team hits in production—and why Katelyn thinks “my sandbox died and took the agent with it” is the real reason internal agents don't ship. - Why Anthropic is so bullish on using file systems and skills within Claude, including Angela's argument that those early design choices can compound for years. This is a must-watch for anyone trying to take an agent past the demo and into production. Watch below! Timestamps: How the Claude platform evolved from API to agents: 00:01:48 The primitives that make up Claude Managed Agents: 00:04:09 Why the harness and the model are becoming a single unit: 00:10:37 The infrastructure wall that kills most agent projects in production: 00:18:49 Why team agents need a different shape than individual productivity tools: 00:24:49 How Anthropic's legal team uses an agent to review marketing copy: 00:26:36 Using multi-agent orchestration for advisor strategies, adversarial pairs, and swarms: 00:34:24 How to measure agent success with outcome and budget as the end state: 00:35:50 What the platform looks like a year from now, when Claude writes its own harness: 00:39:11

Dan Shipper

66,840 次观看 • 4 个月前

A 2-person startup crossed $2M ARR with an AI agent doing the work of an ops hire. The agent was given read-only access to their codebase and database along with connected tools like Intercom, Stripe, CRM, and Fathom through CLIs. They routed Slack, email, and support requests into a task queue so the agent could pick up each task and run it in Claude Code. So when a customer asked about billing or product behavior, it could inspect how the business actually worked. Along with these tools, a coding agent was also provided. When the ops agent found a repeated task it could not do yet, the coding agent built a tool for it. That tool became permanent. Over time, this grew to 45+ internal tools. The agent also had an instruction.md where it stored the co-founder's feedback to avoid repeating its mistakes.

A 2-person startup crossed $2M ARR with an AI agent doing the work of an ops hire. The agent was given read-only access to their codebase and database along with connected tools like Intercom, Stripe, CRM, and Fathom through CLIs. They routed Slack, email, and support requests into a task queue so the agent could pick up each task and run it in Claude Code. So when a customer asked about billing or product behavior, it could inspect how the business actually worked. Along with these tools, a coding agent was also provided. When the ops agent found a repeated task it could not do yet, the coding agent built a tool for it. That tool became permanent. Over time, this grew to 45+ internal tools. The agent also had an instruction.md where it stored the co-founder's feedback to avoid repeating its mistakes.

rvivek

11,870 次观看 • 3 个月前