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Anthropic's closing session in the Managed Agents series covers evals, CI/CD and multi-tenancy, the unglamorous parts of shipping agents.
Oct 12 · 18:58
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Oct 12 · 14:23
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Snorkel walks through training a small-model finance agent for under $500, with concrete cost and results numbers.
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A talk from Coder on the lethal trifecta (private data, untrusted input, external actions) in agents already running on developer laptops, with practical mitigations.
Oct 10 · 20:44
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Oct 9 · 43:06
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Oct 9 · 14:08
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Building on the Codex Harness — Dominik Kundel, OpenAI
OpenAI's Dominik Kundel walks through building on the Codex harness, the agent loop under Codex that you can extend with your own tools.
Oct 9 · 18:08
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Designing CLIs for Agents, Not Humans — Pedro Lopez, Airbyte
Airbyte's engineer explains how to design CLIs that agents can use reliably, with practical interface choices from a team that ships them.
Oct 9 · 18:20
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A team explains why they deleted their MCP server and rebuilt it, with practical lessons on tool design for agents.
Oct 8 · 16:40
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Giving AI Agents Memory That Learns — Jake Broekhuizen, LangChain
A LangChain engineer shows how to give agents memory that learns over time, with concrete patterns you can implement.
Oct 8 · 16:39
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Why Bigger Context Windows Won't Save Your Agent — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, AWS
AWS's Elizabeth Fuentes Leone explains why stuffing more into the context window degrades agents and what to do instead: retrieval, compaction and scoped memory.
Oct 8 · 15:54
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Turning Agent Memory Into Skills That Work — Will Lyon, Neo4j
Will Lyon of Neo4j shows how to turn an agent's raw memory into reusable skills that actually hold up, with patterns you can copy into your own harness.
Oct 8 · 18:41
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Oct 7 · 20:19
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Oct 7 · 2:32
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Google DeepMind's Philipp Schmid walks through the Gemini Interactions API: server-side state, background jobs and a cloud sandbox for every agent in one call.
Oct 7 · 20:42
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Runlayer's founding engineer shows how agents that write their own skills went from 36% to 100% task success, and how to share those skills company-wide.
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Oct 7 · 24:38
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Oct 6 · 20:32
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Oct 6 · 33:47
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Oct 6 · 18:03
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Oct 5 · 42:17
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Oct 4 · 20:40
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OpenAI's head of ChatGPT and Codex, Tibo Sottiaux, on Dots, why most internet actions will soon be taken by agents, and why hand-built agent graphs are a passing phase.
Oct 4 · 37:23
VideoTech With TimAgents
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End-to-end walkthrough of the Claude Agent SDK: tools, sessions, permissions and shipping an agent that does real work. Start here if you have used Claude Code and want…
Sep 14 · 37:11
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How to Use Multi-Agent Workflows in Claude Code: Skills, Subagents & Handoffs (2026)
Five minutes on the three primitives that make Claude Code scale past one terminal: skills, subagents and handoffs. Watch before you set up a team's shared Claude Code…
Jul 26 · 5:16
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Build an AI Agent System with n8n (Full Tutorial)
A multi-agent system in n8n: an orchestrator that hands off to specialist agents, with memory and error handling. Good pattern for internal automations before you write…
May 24 · 22:41
Videon8nAgents
n8n Quick Start Tutorial: Build Your First AI Agent [2026]
n8n's official quick start: wire an LLM to tools and memory in a visual workflow and deploy it. The fastest way to put an agent behind a Slack channel or a webhook…
Feb 13 · 20:51
VideoAI EngineerAgents
Claude Agent SDK [Full Workshop] — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
Anthropic's own workshop on the Agent SDK: the agent loop, tool design, subagents, context management and evaluation. Nearly two hours, from the person who built it.
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