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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

MCP's Enterprise Auth Stops at the Front Door

MCP's Enterprise Managed Authorization extension went stable last month.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

MCP Shipped a UI Layer. Here's What Breaks in Your Agent Stack.

Every agent architecture diagram I've seen in the last eighteen months tells the same lie.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

One Routing Layer Turned a $500/Day Agent Into a $50 One

An engineering team I spoke with last month runs a customer support agent that classifies tickets, extracts key fields, drafts responses, and escalates edge...

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Prompt-Based Routing Was Always a Liability. ADK 2.0 Just Made It Official.

Google shipped ADK 2.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Your Agent Already Knows When to Call a Tool — It Just Won't Say So

You've seen the logs. Your agent gets a question it could answer from parametric memory — "what's 12 × 15?

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

GPT-5.6 Spawns Its Own Subagents. Your Orchestration Code Is the Fallback Plan.

OpenAI shipped something in the GPT-5.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

MCP Goes Stateless on July 28. Your Session Store Doesn't Know Yet.

The largest MCP spec revision since the protocol launched drops on July 28, and the headline is blunt: sessions are gone.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

200 Endpoints in the System Prompt Was Never Going to Work

Something happened when MCP catalogs crossed a threshold nobody was watching.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Below 45%, Add Agents. Above It, Don't.

Somewhere around March this year, every enterprise deck I reviewed had a slide titled "Multi-Agent Architecture" with a box-and-arrow diagram showing...

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Compound Failure Kills Agent Projects. The Arithmetic Was Always There.

A team I talked to last month had a 12-step agent workflow that hit 94% on their eval suite. They shipped it.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Width Beats Depth in Agent Tool Calling. The Numbers Aren't Close.

Watch a coding agent tackle a bug. It greps for a function name, waits two seconds, reads the file, waits two seconds, greps for the caller, waits two seconds.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

GitHub Gave Its Agent Read Access to Everything. Someone Opened an Issue.

Noma Security's July 6 disclosure was almost anticlimactic. Open a public issue on a repository.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Structured Output Is Your Agent's API Contract — And It Has a Tax

Every multi-agent system eventually hits the same wall: Agent A produces a result, Agent B can't parse it, and the pipeline crashes.

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Agent Patterns · ·6 min read

MCP Enterprise Auth Tells You Who Can Connect — Not Who Can Delete

Last month, a team I advise rolled out MCP servers to 400 engineers.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

The Agent Loop Is Not Settled

Most agent frameworks agree on the loop: call the model, run a tool, feed the result back. Pydantic AI V2 and LlamaIndex Workflows 1.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Your Agent Already Knows When to Call Tools. The Decoder Doesn't Care.

Every unnecessary tool call your agent makes is a tax — latency, tokens, API fees — paid because the model defaulted to "call it anyway.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Procedural Tasks Run Better Without an Orchestrator

A team at the University of Melbourne ran 600 conversations across three domains — travel booking, tech support, insurance claims — and the orchestrated system...

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

MCP Goes Stateless — Everything You Bolted On Can Come Off

Every MCP server I've deployed in the last year needed the same ugly scaffolding: a shared session store, sticky routing at the gateway, and a...

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

MCP Moved Tasks to an Extension. That Was the Right Call.

Every agent framework demos great when the tool call returns in 200 milliseconds.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

What Survived When Microsoft Merged Its Agent Frameworks

Microsoft merged Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK and shipped it as Agent Framework 1.0 in April.

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