529 posts tagged with "AI agents"
AI agents and autonomous systems
Red Hat Ships MCP Servers for OpenShift and Ansible: The Enterprise Read on Agent-Operated Infrastructure
Red Hat's MCP servers for OpenShift and Ansible went GA in May 2026 with a read-mostly, playbook-gated design — a reference for agent-operated infrastructure that no git-push PaaS has matched.
The Agent That Burned $4,200 in 63 Hours: What a Deploy/Rollback MCP Server Needs for Spend Circuit Breakers
A $4,200 weekend bill with no ceiling in the loop is the shape of every 2026 agent-cost incident — here is the five-layer circuit-breaker design, from server-side spend ledgers to namespace quotas and a kill switch, that stops the next one.
Anthropic Split the Agent's Brain From Its Hands: Why Infrastructure Is Now the Bottleneck
Anthropic's Managed Agents architecture splits every agent into a stateless brain, disposable sandbox hands, and a durable session log — and the hands are yours to own. A concrete mapping of who runs what, the per-second cost math of managed sandboxes versus owned machines, and the five-item checklist a real execution layer must satisfy.
One API Key vs 7,000 Tools: Where a Self-Hosted PaaS's MCP Server Should Land
A homelab MCP bridge runs your infrastructure behind one API token; Arcade's engine vaults per-user OAuth behind 7,000 tools. The head-to-head operator math at three team sizes, and where a self-hosted PaaS should land between them.
Dedicated vs VPS for AI Agents: 64 GB of Exclusive RAM for $57/Month Changes the Hosting Math
osModa's 2026 comparison prices a Hetzner AX42 dedicated box with 64 GB of exclusive RAM at ~$57/month against a 16 GB shared VPS at ~$80. This post reproduces the $/GB math, works out the bin-packing crossover for fleet operators, and shows why the dedicated-vs-VPS line lands differently for agents than for web services.
One Config Field, 12,000 Exposed Boxes: What Flowise's CustomMCP RCE Teaches Anyone Exposing Agent Tools
Flowise's CustomMCP node turned a config string into remote code execution on 12,000+ internet-exposed instances. The anatomy of CVE-2025-59528, the sibling CVEs proving it is a pattern, and a six-rule checklist for anyone running an MCP or agent-tool surface.
Shipping a Deploy-Authority MCP Server on Golf: What the Framework Owns and What You Still Build
Golf, a production MCP server framework on FastMCP 4.0, owns auth, telemetry, and transport so you write only agent logic. Here is the exact framework-vs-platform split for an MCP server that deploys to production — plus the credential scoping, deploy API, and audit log no framework builds for you.
Hoplite and the Cloud Coding-Agent Wave: What You're Really Renting When Your Agent Setup Moves Off Your Laptop
Hoplite moves your coding-agent setup — sessions, memories, MCP servers — onto rented cloud sandboxes for $99/seat. A bundle inventory, the lock-in shape, worked rent-vs-own math at 1/5/20 developers, and the five-component self-hosted equivalent.
Kagent Brings CRD-Native AI Agents to Kubernetes: What It Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
Kagent turns AI agents into Kubernetes objects you version, roll out, and inspect with kubectl. Here is what the Agent CRD, MCP tool servers, and A2A teams replace on a self-hosted PaaS roadmap — and where the platform still owns the problem.