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Learn: Agents

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Tools, memory, MCP and agents that work.

5 steps to the basics

Start here

  1. Building effective agentsAnthropic · When an agent helps, and the simple patterns that work.
  2. A practical guide to building agentsOpenAI · Models, tools and instructions, from first agent to guardrails.
  3. Function callingOpenAI · How a model asks your code to do something.
  4. Tool use with ClaudeAnthropic · The same idea, step by step, with Claude.
  5. What is the Model Context Protocol?Model Context Protocol · One standard way to plug tools and data into any agent.

New for beginners

  1. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 16, 2026
    How to Safely Let AI Agents Call Production APIs using DigitalOcean Action Gateway
  2. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 13, 2026
    How to Rewrite Apache Spark UDFs for GPU Acceleration with AI Agents
  3. The GitHub BlogOct 12, 2026
    GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
  4. Real PythonOct 8, 2026
    What Is Meta Muse? A Plain-English Guide to Meta's New AI
  5. TwilioOct 6, 2026
    How to design an AI agent for resolution instead of rapport
  6. AnacondaOct 5, 2026
    The Hidden Line in the Footer: How to Stop AI Agents From Following Bad Instructions
  7. CircleCIOct 2, 2026
    Intent-driven development: How to guide agents from idea to implementation
  8. WriterOct 2, 2026
    Leading from the front: How BetterHelp’s Chief Growth Officer is building an AI-native marketing engine
  9. LangChainOct 1, 2026
    What Is Jev? A Guide to TypeSafe AI’s System One Model
  10. AnacondaSep 29, 2026
    What Is MCP Security? A Practical Introduction
  11. Google CloudSep 29, 2026
    Graph Workflows in ADK: Everything You Need to Know
  12. BoltSep 29, 2026
    What AI agents can do for a small business
  13. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 28, 2026
    NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
  14. The GitHub BlogSep 25, 2026
    GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
  15. TwilioSep 25, 2026
    What is AI agent orchestration? How it works in 2026
  16. OpenAISep 22, 2026
    Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
  17. ExpoSep 3, 2026
    12 AEO practices to make your documentation AI-ready

Go deeper

  1. AWS Machine LearningOct 16, 2026
    Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  2. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 16, 2026
    Code, Test, and Deploy on One Machine with NVIDIA RTX Spark
  3. AWS Machine LearningOct 16, 2026
    Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS
  4. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 15, 2026
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning
  5. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 15, 2026
    Scale Agentic Coding Workflows with Meta’s Muse Spark Open on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
  6. AWS Machine LearningOct 15, 2026
    Trust in Depth: Giving agents more autonomy without losing control
  7. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 15, 2026
    Agents in Production, Part 2: Build an AI-Native Coding Agent That Turns Tickets into Reviewed Pull Requests with Managed Agents
  8. AWS Machine LearningOct 14, 2026
    Build self-improving document processing using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  9. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 14, 2026
    Optimizing Agent Reliability and Tool Calling Efficiency for Chip Design Using NVIDIA NeMo Gym
  10. AWS Machine LearningOct 14, 2026
    Generate presentations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  11. AWS Machine LearningOct 13, 2026
    Building agents that transact with Anchor Browser and AgentCore payments
  12. LangChainOct 13, 2026
    How We Made Our Docs Test Themselves
  13. ArizeOct 13, 2026
    EU AI Act compliance for AI agents: a practical engineering guide
  14. PostmanOct 13, 2026
    AI Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT: How Postman Got Ahead of Ours
  15. SnowflakeOct 13, 2026
    5 Considerations for Upleveling Your Real-World Data and Evidence Strategy
  16. AWS Machine LearningOct 13, 2026
    Build long-horizon agents with Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock
  17. Mozilla.aiOct 13, 2026
    Building the Missing Half
  18. Tigera (Calico)Oct 13, 2026
    From Merged PR to Governed Pod: Automating AI Agent Deployment on Kubernetes
  19. JetBrainsOct 13, 2026
    CI/CD Pipeline Observability Tools: How to Choose the Right Setup
  20. .NETOct 12, 2026
    Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve?
  21. Google Cloud Data AnalyticsOct 12, 2026
    Agentic data science with the Data Agent Kit
  22. AWS Architecture BlogOct 12, 2026
    Agentic antimicrobial resistance surveillance with AWS HealthOmics and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  23. ArizeOct 12, 2026
    How to test agent tool descriptions with Harbor and Phoenix
  24. Akamai Cloud (Linode)Oct 12, 2026
    Monetizing AI Agents at the Edge with Akamai Functions
  25. CNCFOct 12, 2026
    From zero to agent builder: Running kagent on your laptop
  26. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 12, 2026
    Agents in Production, Part 1: Build an Overnight AI Support Agent using Managed Agents
  27. ArizeOct 9, 2026
    Alignment is a human-AI workflow: how Custom Views make agent review possible
  28. DatabricksOct 9, 2026
    From post-training to production: How TinyFish runs its web-native model on Databricks AI Runtime
  29. AWS Machine LearningOct 9, 2026
    ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
  30. LangChainOct 9, 2026
    How Snyk Turned an Internal Support Agent into a Customer Feature
  31. Okta DeveloperOct 9, 2026
    Build a Secure TypeScript MCP Client with Cross App Access (XAA)
  32. VercelOct 9, 2026
    How Rillet ships 3× faster with AI agents on Vercel
  33. UpstashOct 9, 2026
    MCP Tasks and Events, Explained: Long-Running Tools and Agents That Wake Up
  34. CoreWeaveOct 8, 2026
    What Is ARIA, and How Did We Build It?
  35. AWS Machine LearningOct 8, 2026
    Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
  36. LangChainOct 8, 2026
    Agents that can pay: building Restock with Stripe's Link and Managed Deep Agents
  37. PingCAP (TiDB)Oct 8, 2026
    Persistent AI Agent Memory Explained: How Agents Remember Across Sessions
  38. PostmanOct 8, 2026
    Agentic SDLC with the Claude Code Plugin
  39. FirebaseOct 8, 2026
    Building an iOS app in 6 hours with Firebase and Antigravity
  40. TemporalOct 8, 2026
    The immortal life of Pi (Running the Pi coding agent on Temporal)

Advanced

  1. LangChainOct 13, 2026
    Improving Deep Agents with harness engineering
  2. LangChainOct 13, 2026
    Context Management for Deep Agents
  3. AWS Machine LearningOct 13, 2026
    Natural language security queries at Orca Security using Amazon Bedrock
  4. LangChainOct 13, 2026
    Building Long-Running Agents with ScaleDown and Deep Agents
  5. Trendyol TechOct 13, 2026
    Building Traffic AI — Part 2: From Anomaly Detection to Proactive Platform Operations
  6. Google for DevelopersOct 13, 2026
    Optimizing a 200,000-line Python codebase overnight with Gemini 4 Argon
  7. SnowflakeOct 12, 2026
    Agentic AI in Manufacturing: Scale From Pilot to Production
  8. Microsoft AzureOct 12, 2026
    Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
  9. AWS Machine LearningOct 9, 2026
    How Postman runs Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock
  10. LinkedIn EngineeringOct 9, 2026
    Inside LinkedIn's data context layer: curating trustworthy context for humans and agents
  11. Real PythonOct 9, 2026
    The Real Python Podcast – Episode #314: Codemoo: Demonstrating How Coding Agents Work
  12. Stack Overflow BlogOct 8, 2026
    Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
  13. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 8, 2026
    Building Reliable Data Analytics Agents: Lessons from the KDD Cup
  14. PyTorchOct 8, 2026
    Session-Aware Agentic Inference with NVIDIA Dynamo
  15. ExpoOct 8, 2026
    Your skills need an evaluation mechanism
  16. PostHogOct 8, 2026
    We built our own cloud agents runtime. Here's what we learned
  17. Stack Overflow BlogOct 7, 2026
    Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer
  18. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 7, 2026
    Validate AI Factory Changes with Digital Twins and AI Agents
  19. The GitHub BlogOct 6, 2026
    Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
  20. KubernetesOct 5, 2026
    Scaling Kubernetes Workloads with Node Swap
  21. AI21 LabsOct 4, 2026
    From manual negotiation to automated scheduling: How AI21 manages its GPU fleet with Kueue
  22. ArizeOct 2, 2026
    Prompt caching benchmark: high cache reuse doesn’t always mean lower cost
  23. CoreWeaveOct 2, 2026
    Your Agent Is Only as Good as Your Infrastructure
  24. VercelOct 2, 2026
    How Rogo ships agent-written code to production in 5 minutes on Vercel
  25. AWS Machine LearningOct 1, 2026
    Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  26. CoreWeaveOct 1, 2026
    Agentic workflows in production: Mechanisms, trade-offs, costs and design patterns
  27. AWS Machine LearningOct 1, 2026
    Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors
  28. Amazon ScienceOct 1, 2026
    Graph-centric agentic intelligence
  29. DatabricksSep 30, 2026
    How to scale agentic applications without creating AI sprawl
  30. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 30, 2026
    Tracing Agent Harness Behavior with NVIDIA NeMo Relay
  31. AMD ROCmSep 30, 2026
    Automating Performance Bottleneck Identification with the TraceLens Agent
  32. Stripe DevelopersSep 30, 2026
    Stripe’s Payment Method Factory: Orchestrating agents for repeated, custom integrations
  33. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 29, 2026
    AI Native by Design: Lessons Learned from Building NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect
  34. Snorkel AISep 28, 2026
    RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation
  35. Snorkel AISep 28, 2026
    RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation
  36. SUSESep 28, 2026
    Clearing the Vulnerability Backlog Safely: Agentic SecOps on SUSE AI Factory with the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform
  37. TwilioSep 28, 2026
    Building Localised, Enterprise-Grade AI Voice Agents
  38. Pinterest EngineeringSep 25, 2026
    Partition Finalization in Pinterest’s Next-Generation DB Ingestion Framework
  39. AMD ROCmSep 25, 2026
    UltraQuant on AMD Instinct: More Efficient Agentic Serving for Qwen3.8-MXFP4
  40. LovableSep 24, 2026
    Inside Chats: How Lovable's Agents Work Together

Words to know

New research

  1. MLExpert: Towards a Generalist Agentic Model for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering
  2. KnowGPO: Knowledge-Grouped Policy Optimization for Search Agents
  3. Learning Self-Orchestration in Decentralized Agent Swarms
  4. A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft
  5. Improving Environment-Agnostic Coding Agents: The Role of Scaffolding

More in AI and agents →

Rising on GitHub

  1. morluto/reaReverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
  2. mattpocock/skillsSkills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
  3. heygen-com/hyperframesWrite HTML. Render video. Built for agents.
  4. mksglu/context-modeContext window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.

Everything rising this week →