531 posts tagged with "AI agents"
AI agents and autonomous systems
MCP's July 2026 Revision Redesigns the Minutes-Long Tool Call: Tasks, MRTR, and server/discover Explained
MCP's July 28, 2026 revision moves long-running tools to a pollable Tasks extension, replaces server callbacks with multi round-trip requests, and mandates server/discover — a deploy-tool-grounded walkthrough with sequence sketches and a migration checklist.
OpenCost's Built-In MCP Server Turns Cost Allocation Into an Agent-Callable Tool
OpenCost's built-in MCP server exposes Kubernetes cost allocation as agent-callable tools. Here is the exact tool surface, a worked tenant-cost query, and the scoping rules that keep read-only cost data safe on a multi-tenant fleet.
Platform Engineering 2.0: Your Internal Platform's Newest User Is an AI Agent
CNCF's 2026 Platform Engineering 2.0 framing says your platform's newest user is an AI agent. A 5-minute audit plus the API-first requirements — declarative state, idempotent writes, policy at execution — that make agents operable on machines you own.
Railway's Q2 Changelog Is the Deploy-From-Chat Playbook: Sandboxes, SSH, and Private Networking in Dependency Order
Railway's May–June 2026 changelog shipped standard SSH, an agent sandbox VM, zero-install SSH onboarding, and scriptable private networking — in exactly the dependency order a deploy-from-chat platform needs. A dated reading of the quarter plus a five-step build order for self-hosting it.
Render's MCP Server Just Set the Deploy-From-Chat Baseline: OAuth, trigger_deploy, and What Your Self-Hosted Fleet Must Match
Render's July 2026 MCP updates — one-click OAuth and a hardened trigger_deploy — define what agent-operated deploys look like. A 25-tool inventory of the baseline plus a parity checklist for matching deploy-from-chat on machines you own.
StackQL v0.11 Turns Every Agent Cloud Query Into an OpenTelemetry Record: What That Buys Your Fleet's Audit Trail
StackQL v0.11 speaks MCP revision 2026-07-28 and emits its agent audit log as OTLP records. The exact collector config that ingests it with no transform, the stateless-HTTP tradeoff, and what remains before inventory queries become deploy authority.
Temporal Went From $5B to $12.5B in Seven Months: Why Deploy-From-Chat Agents Need Durable Execution
Temporal's $550M raise at $12.55B and its GA OpenAI Agents SDK integration mark durable execution as production-required for agents. A worked deploy-from-chat crash scenario shows what breaks without it, plus a cloud vs self-hosted vs lighter-engine decision guide.
Versioning MCP Deploy Tools at 10,000-Server Scale: What Breaking Tool-Schema Changes Do to Agents Pinned Against Your Endpoint
Past 10,000 servers, your MCP tool schemas are a public API with pinned agent clients. A breaking-vs-safe change table, two worked deploy-tool examples — one loud, one silent — and a six-rule versioning discipline for self-hosted endpoints.
Zayo Put Network Operations Behind an MCP Server: What Governed Agent Access to the Underlay Means for Deploy-from-Chat
Zayo's September 2026 Agentic Networking launch puts network operations behind a governed MCP server. What an underlay-aware deploy agent can do, and the five-rule governance boundary your own agent tools should copy.