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Reports tagged agents.

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7 reports
Aug 2026
08-04 Deep Dive The Cache Miss After the Gap Coding agents serve 95.7% of their input tokens from cache. The steps that miss cluster in one place — the first call after an idle gap — and that is where the serving work went. 31 cited · of 298 sources 08-02 Frontier Research The Audit Join Is Still a Hypothesis A replayable table can still encode the wrong experiment. Across five domains, the useful audit object is the local decision joined to evidence, execution, versions, and status. 19 cited · of 265 sources
Jul 2026
07-29 Flagship The Blast Radius Was the Bug: Agent Incidents Are an Authority Problem, Not an Intelligence One Most of the enterprise agent damage on public record arrived with no attacker attached. What made it unrecoverable was not the model's mistake but the standing authority already sitting behind it. 29 cited · of 147 sources 07-29 Deep Dive Containment Moved Downstream: How Deployed Agents Fight Prompt Injection by Giving Up Reach In-model defenses give much of their gain back once attackers study them. The cuts that hold sit on what the agent may do — they cost reach, and no test has yet matched the scale that broke the rest. 28 cited · of 256 sources 07-29 Deep Dive The Description Is Always Loaded: How Agent Skills Break Tasks Without Being Invoked Skill libraries lift an agent's average and quietly break tasks it already solved, and one channel of that damage runs through a line of metadata that sits in context whether or not the skill is opened. 12 cited · of 362 sources 07-27 Frontier Research AI Coding Agents in Mid-2026: The Score Went Up, the Checking Did Not Get Cheaper One independently run leaderboard cleared ninety percent this July. Every headline number measures what an agent can produce; almost none measures what it costs to check. 33 cited · of 195 sources 07-22 Flagship Agent Harnesses Multiply What the Model Already Has — They Don't Supply It In the one six-model study that measured it, swapping only the scaffolding cut the bill by 41 percent — while the quality gain moved with the model underneath. 14 cited · of 42 sources