The map
The AI Engineering Skills Map is the spine of this deskAndrew Ng’s four skills — wrap, eval, ground, ship — are how this board is filed. If you are building an AI app, start here, not with a model card.
Latent SpaceAug 25Editorial
Setting type
Agentic Firehose
Pulling labs, repos, and the catch-up path…
Harnesses, graphs, loops, APIs you call this week — tagged with Ng’s application skills. Not a training desk. New here is the decoder. Starting a project this week? Catch up is the four-skill map — not more news.
The map
The AI Engineering Skills Map is the spine of this deskAndrew Ng’s four skills — wrap, eval, ground, ship — are how this board is filed. If you are building an AI app, start here, not with a model card.
Latent SpaceAug 25Editorial
A named harness with planning and a filesystem. Compare it to rolling your own before you adopt it.
LangChain2d agoLive
The craft
Harness engineering is the new self-improvement storyLilian Weng’s map of recursive improvement is not sci-fi: it is loops, evals, and the wrapper around the model. If you only watch model cards, you will miss the job.
Lilian WengJul 4Editorial
Cookbooks for building AI apps: context, harness, graphs, cloud.
Wrap
Wrap Claude Opus 5 this week for long-running agentsCallable API drop: coding, computer-use, and long agentic work at Opus price. Swap it in the harness, not a training recipe.
AnthropicJul 24Editorial
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LangSmith LLM Gateway: runtime controls for production agentsRuntime controls on the LLM gateway for production agents — wrap/ship, not a training launch.
LangChainJul 30Editorial
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Introducing the Agents API — managed cloud agents on the Codex harnessCallable managed Agents API for orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use — swap DIY agent loops for a hosted Codex harness path when wrapping/shipping cloud agents.
OpenAISep 10Editorial
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Gemini 3.8 Flash: SWE/agentic Flash you callProduct drop via Gemini API / AI Studio for long-horizon SWE and agentic workflows.
GoogleSep 2Editorial
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Gemini 3.8 Flash on Vercel AI GatewaySame-day Gateway route for Next.js / AI SDK apps already on Vercel.
VercelSep 2Editorial
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GPT-6 Astra on OpenAI API (and AWS)Callable Fable-class coding/agent model this week for wrap/eval A/B.
Simon WillisonSep 3Editorial
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI GatewayOne gateway model id for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — A/B a cheap fast tier against Astra/Fable/Gemini on the same AI SDK router without a separate DeepSeek account.
Vercel ChangelogSep 9Editorial
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datasette-mcp 0.2MCP server for Datasette so a coding agent can query your tables as tools — wrap the DB you already ship.
datasette/datasette-mcpSep 1Editorial
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Claude API adds Claude Fable 5.1 with 1M contextSwap the model string in existing Messages API calls for long-running agentic coding on a 1M window without re-chunking context.
Claude API release notesSep 1Editorial
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Claude for Commerce AgentsReference tool/action surface for shopping and checkout agents you'd wrap around an existing commerce API.
ClaudeSep 2Editorial
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Wrap GLM-5.3-Flash this week: 1M-context API, not a lab you train atCall it through Z.ai or Baseten — long-context wrap, MIT weights as a swap. Cookbook for the endpoint, not a training drop.
Z.aiAug 26Editorial
App
Next.js App Router: a streaming AI app with the AI SDKBuild the chat UI and the route handler this week. Cloud lab for shipping an application, not wiring a network.
Vercel AI SDKEditorial
Wrap
Call Bedrock Converse in your app this weekWrap the AWS API — messages, tools, streaming — inside the product. Not a VPC lab.
AWSEditorial
Cloud
Deploy a Python ADK agent to Cloud Run this weekGCP lab: Vertex/ADK as an agent app on Cloud Run. Ship the product, not a TPU blog.
Google CloudEditorial
Harness, loops, graphs, MCP, permissions, evals as acceptance.
Harness
Managed agents: decouple the brain from the handsAnthropic’s engineering note on splitting the planner from the tools is the production version of a harness. Same idea whether you like Claude or not.
Anthropic EngineeringEditorial
Clone-to-ship: RAG, eval harnesses, agent wrappers. Not train-a-model.
Repo
earendil-works/piToolkit with agent loop + TUI + coding CLI — drop-in harness pieces for wrapping models with tools instead of rolling your own loop.
GitHub16h ago116k ★Live
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mksglu/context-modeSandbox tool output / shrink context (~98% claimed) for coding agents — drop into harnesses to cut token cost before the
Watchlist posts for people building AI apps. Originals, not architecture notes.
How Leash Bio tamed DELs, the assay that traumatizes everyone, and used the data to catch cheating models.
Latent Space3d agoLive
Release: llm-gemini 0.35 I added support to llm-gemini for the new Gemini 4 Argon model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan.
Simon Willison
browser-use’s Mac harness is the app on the laptop in front of you: Accessibility, a computer-use loop, tool permissions.
browser-use/macos-harnessEditorial
BYOH: MCP and CLI into the loop you already run. An embedded chat agent will not have your skills, memory, or local tools.
yakko.devSep 1Editorial
One command turns a stdio MCP server into a Streamable HTTP URL with OAuth 2.1. Demo the harness without deploying.
mcptunnelsEditorial
Eval you attach to the wrap: flag agent mistakes on every thread without standing up your own judge.
LangChainAug 18Editorial
Org-provisioned HTTP/SSE MCP for every user — harness permissions, not filesystem MDM.
Claude CodeEditorial
MCPAdapter + elicitation → LangGraph interrupts for app-side agent graphs.
langchain-ai/langchainEditorial
Builder glossary for harness/loop language FDEs ship with.
GitHub BlogEditorial
Redesign tool surfaces for how models call them — harness craft, not an IDE feature list.
Agent ConnectEditorial
Harness
Cursor joins the AI SDK harness layerSwap Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Pi behind one HarnessAgent interface — coding-agent wrap without rewriting the app.
VercelAug 27Editorial
Treat agent/env/skill/memory as IaC: describe resources in-repo, run ant apply, commit claude-lock.json so CI updates the same resources instead of recreating them.
Claude API release notesSep 3Editorial
Faster cold paths for coding-agent / cloud-agent sandboxes — ship agent loops that spawn remote sandboxes without the previous routing tax.
Vercel ChangelogSep 8Editorial
Server-side auto allow/deny/pause for agent + MCP tool calls (evaluation field on events) plus terminal attach via ant beta:sessions connect — ship Managed Agents harnesses with live approval loops.
Claude Platform release notesSep 10Editorial
Same-laptop bake-off across nine coding harnesses — use it to pick harness by local cost×quality before you standardize a fleet.
Hacker News / NotionSep 10Editorial
How agentic coding blew up CI and how Anthropic scaled test-impact analysis
Claude BlogSep 14Editorial
Gotchas moving huge agent preprompts onto self-hosted Ollama
patrickmccanna.netSep 14Editorial
GitHub1h ago30k ★Live
Repo
ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcpOfficial-ish MCP surface so coding agents can drive DevTools — ground browser/debug tool use in harnesses without scraping CDP by hand.
GitHub20h ago54k ★Live
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GiovanniPasq/agentic-rag-for-dummiesGrounding is the underweight skill on this board: get the right facts in, then wrap. Not a chatbot story.
GitHub28m ago4.3k ★Live
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bytedance/deer-flowOpen long-horizon agent harness with sandboxes/memory — clone research+code+create loops instead of writing orchestration from scratch.
GitHub23m ago84k ★Live
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slowave-ai/slowaveLocal adaptive memory harness for coding agents — keep context without a cloud store
GitHub2d ago17 ★Live
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anomalyco/opencodeActively pushed open coding-agent harness — clone-to-ship an alternative terminal agent loop without a closed SaaS lock-in.
GitHub56m ago215k ★Live
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addyosmani/agent-skillsClone a curated skill pack for coding agents — drop production engineering skills into Claude Code/Cursor/Codex-style harnesses instead of inventing prompts from scratch
GitHub4d ago108k ★Live
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upstash/context7Up-to-date docs for LLMs and coding agents — ground harnesses on current library docs instead of stale training cutoff.
GitHub11h ago63k ★Live
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DeusData/codebase-memory-mcpMCP server that indexes repos into a persistent code graph — clone-to-ground coding agents with structured codebase memory.
GitHub36m ago47k ★Live
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deepmemteam/deepmem-claude-pluginMemory plugin so coding agents remember coding & chat context across sessions
GitHubAug 202 ★Live
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6v17/VideoSeekOffline video material retrieval platform for semantic search, subtitle search, Agent API, and AI-assisted editing. Clone-to-ship: RAG, eval, or an agent wrapper.
GitHub23m ago98 ★Live
Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud.
Latent Space10d agoLive
Grounding is the underweight skill on this board: get the right facts in, then wrap. Not a chatbot story.
Google DeepMind11d agoLive
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
OpenAISep 29Live
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Orchestrators vs graphs: the ceiling of a central routerHarness craft: an orchestrator routes every message; graphs let agents hand off without a single bottleneck reading all five.
Hanako / XSep 14Live
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Altman: stop writing prompts — build loops and graphsAgent craft spine: Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs — the difference between using AI and having AI work.
virgilxbt / XSep 14Live
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Open Code Review: deterministic pipeline + agent only for reasoningCoding-agent craft: Git diffs → review changed files → codebase context search — agent where judgment helps, not everywhere.
Tech with Mak / XSep 14Live
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ElevenLabs MCP: voice/music/image/video from the assistant you already useMCP wrap craft: generate speech, dubs, SFX, images, video from the coding/chat agent — tools in the harness, not a new app.
Charly Wargnier / XSep 14Live
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Book drop: Agentic Architectural Patterns (multi-agent + RAG + LLMOps)Catch-up systems: design patterns for multi-agent systems, RAG, and enterprise-scale AI app architecture — not model training.
Kirk Borne / XSep 14Live
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Anthropic: teams of agents with loops, graphs, skills & hooksHarness course: CLAUDE.md + Plan mode → skills/hooks → subagents → self-improving loops — app-builder spine.
Callan / XSep 14Live
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Bolt Forge: open models in the web builder (DeepSeek/GLM)Ship/wrap: put open weights in the vibe-coding web builder — model picker as product surface, not a training lab.
Charly Wargnier / XSep 14Live
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Claude Mods land: extend the coding agent with community modsWrap/harness: Mods let you extend Claude’s agent surface — technical details + demos in the community update.
Boris Cherny / XSep 14Live
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8 questions before the next AI release: what eval blocks prod?Eval/prod craft: one good metric, unacceptable failures, who approves — shipping weekly without answers is release-note addiction.
Suraj Sharma / XSep 14Live
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"End of Prompt Engineering": wishes aren't harnessesAgent craft: telling agents what to do is finished — loops/graphs beat repeating the same wish 300 times.
virgilxbt / XSep 14Live
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Anthropic: production Claude Code harness course (CLAUDE.md + Plan Mode)Harness craft: 1-hour on how Claude Code harness works — long-horizon agents via CLAUDE.md & Plan Mode.
Lunar / XSep 14Live
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RAG vs CAG: retrieve what you need vs preload what you needGrounding craft: RAG for large/changing knowledge; CAG when the corpus is small/stable and fits the window — pick the architecture.
Vaidehi / XSep 14Live
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Google Graph & Loop course (fresh drop): 1 prompt → 100 agentsGraph engineering catch-up: first agent graph, parallel agents, loop routing, self-improving graphs — shape over prompts.
Hanako / XSep 14Live
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Coding agent ships CLI + writes/runs its own unit testsEval/ship craft: one-line Codex task → script, mock test, then self-authored unit tests that pass — not a demo script.
Shraddha Bharuka / XSep 14Live
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AI product unit economics: $ per successful task, not tokensShip craft: margin after model+infra+human review, cost of failed runs, break-even requests/day — vanity token spend is not a product.
Suraj Sharma / XSep 14Live
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Encode your job into Claude Skills — automate the daily workflowHarness craft: Anthropic paper on packaging daily workflows as custom Skills so the agent does the heavy lifting.
Annatar.md / XSep 14Live
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20-minute test that tells you if your RAG is fakeGrounding craft: 10 known questions, retrieval-only (no generation) — inspect hits before you add agents or swap models.
Suraj Sharma / XSep 14Live
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Interview: coding agent plans a PR — then a human overlaps commitsFDE agentic engineering: how does your agent reconcile overlapping changes mid-plan-to-PR? Resume keywords aren't enough.
avrl / XSep 14Live
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Workflows vs graphs: fixed boxes hit a ceilingGraph craft: a workflow decides every step before it runs — six months later the same three boxes fire. Graphs adapt.
Hanako / XSep 13Live
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20-min crash course: build→test→deploy→evaluate→improve via coding agentCatch-up spine: full agent lifecycle in plain English through Codex — ship loop, not model internals.
Charly Wargnier / XSep 13Live
Harness
How to design an agent harness: work inside the system of recordAgents share data and policy with humans in one continuously updated view, with an audit trail. Harness design, not a valuation hook.
Yarchi / XAug 27Editorial
Graph
Ng graph engineering: loops into working graphs (2h)Agentic knowledge graphs as app craft: first agent, how loops work, freeze them into graphs. Not a training lecture.
Anatoli Kopadze / XAug 27Editorial
Course
Hugging Face agents course: ship an agent, freesmolagents, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, then a project with evals. Catch up already files the lab; this is the pointer.
Ren / XAug 27Editorial
Graph
Ng’s agentic knowledge graphs course (1h)Persistent context for agents you ship: build the graph, then the multi-agent system. Not a grind thread.
Swati Gupta / XAug 26Editorial
Harness
Claude Code ELI5 skill: MCP and harness as a pageA skill that draws the wrapper: MCP runtime and harness, not a model card. Install it on a real ticket.
GoFly / XAug 25Editorial
Graph
Memory vs graphs: a pile vs a routeMemory is continuity. The graph is who may retrieve and write back. Routing, not a bigger embedding store.
Lunar / XAug 25Editorial
Lovable’s CTO on shaping the build: ship tools, not another consumer app. MCP is the interface.
Latent SpaceAug 25Editorial
Loop
Loops vs graphs: agent owns the path, or you draw the nodesLoop while the work is messy. Freeze it into a graph once the pipeline repeats. Same company brain either way.
Annatar.md / XAug 24Editorial
The Anthropic plugin for llm now tracks SDK 1.x. Upgrade the wrap layer this week so Claude calls keep compiling.
Simon WillisonAug 24Editorial
Loop
Karpathy: agents → loops → graphs as the app craftThe lecture is wrap/eval/ship: loops and graphs you run, not how a lab pretrains a model.
virgilxbt / XAug 23Editorial
Drew Breunig: model cost stopped papering over a weak harness. Context and routing are the job again.
Drew BreunigAug 23Editorial
Simon Willison’s CLI upgraded to OpenAI Python 3.x and httpx2. The adapter you call through, not a cookbook and not a new model.
Simon WillisonAug 22Editorial
Course
Become an AI engineer: LLM apps, APIs, context, tools, deployWrap, RAG, tool-use, evals, then ship. A six-month app-builder path, not a lab-training syllabus.
Rahul / XAug 11Editorial
Claude
Full Claude Course: practical Claude for shipping an appWrap Claude, add tools, ship a real project. Practical course, not a hustle bait.
Jobescape / XAug 11Editorial
Course
Free company AI courses: Anthropic, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAIA Catch up pointer to vendor wrap/eval/ship courses. Not a second lab on this board.
Parag Pawar / XAug 7Editorial
Stack
Vibe-code stack: Next.js, Vercel, Convex, Clerk, StripeSoftware fundamentals for shipping an AI app this week. The wrap layer, not an audience-growth thread.
Alex Finn / XAug 4Editorial
FDE
No-BS FDE guide: wrap and ship in the customer’s stackForward-deployed craft: you are in the account building the AI app. Not a salary-in-30-days thread.
Rahul / XAug 1Editorial