Deep-dive research briefings on specific topics, newest first.
Transforming architectural decisions into machine-readable guardrails that coding agents respect
Over-permissioned agents cause 4.5x more incidents — teams need practical patterns for encoding architectural constraints agents can follow
Supply chain attack vectors and defensive patterns specific to AI agent infrastructure
AI infrastructure dependencies are high-value targets — teams need specific defensive patterns beyond general supply chain hygiene
Strategic implications of AI labs acquiring developer tooling companies
Practitioners depend on tools now owned by AI labs — understanding the strategic logic and risks informs tooling choices
Architectural patterns from Stripe Minions, Spotify Honk, and HubSpot Sidekick
Practitioners building internal coding agents need concrete architectural patterns validated at enterprise scale
Guidance injection attacks on coding agent bootstrap/skill files
Anyone building or deploying coding agents with skill ecosystems (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, custom skills) needs to understand this novel attack surface
The emerging discipline of supervisory engineering in agent-assisted workflows
Teams adopting coding agents need to understand how engineering roles, skills, and team structures are shifting
Comparing TDAD, Arbiter, and existing approaches to prompt regression testing for AI agents
Every production agent team eventually discovers that small prompt changes cause silent behavioral regressions — this scout maps the landscape of available detection and prevention approaches
Autoresearch — the autonomous experiment loop pattern for iterative optimization
Directly applicable to automated optimization, quality improvement, and security hardening workflows in agent infrastructure
Model Context Protocol production deployment issues — what breaks when MCP leaves the demo and hits real infrastructure
MCP is becoming the de facto agent-to-tool standard; understanding its production gaps is essential before committing to it as architectural foundation
