// edition · 2026-05-22
23 stories on AI dev tools, agents, and the coding stack — curated from the day's RSS haul by Agentic Dev's pipeline.
Claude Code supports a custom skills system where users create SKILL.md files in a plugin directory to store reusable instructions that trigger automatically based on user prompts. Each skill consists of a directory with a SKILL.md file containing frontmatter metadata and a body with instructions.
Multica-ai released "andrej-karpathy-skills," a CLAUDE.md configuration file that encodes four LLM coding behavioral guidelines drawn from Andrej Karpathy's observations on X. The file, available in Claude Code plugin and Cursor rules formats, instructs AI coding tools to clarify before implement...
Traditional CI pipelines, which return results in 10-30 minutes, are too slow for AI coding agents that iterate in seconds. One proposed solution is small, self-contained integration checks called "plans" that run inside an agent's session against a live environment, eliminating the round-trip to...
n8n is an open-source workflow automation platform that supports triggers, AI agents, conditional routing, and API integrations. The tutorial demonstrates building a six-stage content publishing pipeline covering form submission, Google Docs retrieval, AI-based draft review, Slack-based editor ap...
Voyage AI and Vespa AI introduced an asymmetric retrieval method where documents are embedded once using a large API-based model, while queries are embedded locally using a smaller model that shares the same vector space, eliminating per-query API costs estimated at $15,500/month at 10,000 querie...
A developer documented four new rules added to a CLAUDE.md configuration file for the Claude AI coding agent over three weeks, each rule generated by a specific incident or code review rather than deliberate rule-writing. One rule addressed a silent RBAC leak risk in a shared Next.js cache functi...
Harness Engineering, a framework introduced by Martin Fowler's team, defines an AI agent as a model plus a surrounding control layer of prompts, validators, and feedback loops. LangChain applied the approach without changing its underlying model and moved its benchmark ranking from outside the to...
A developer integrated nine Claude Haiku AI features into CitizenApp, a GDPR-compliant multi-tenant citizen management SaaS, using a credit-based billing system that deducts per API call. The build uses claude-haiku-4-5 for cost and latency reasons, with a 20-second timeout and per-feature credit...
A Verge writer built three Android apps in one afternoon using Google AI Studio, which generates and installs native Android apps from text prompts. One app required a 148-word prompt and approximately 10 minutes to complete, with the user's only manual step being enabling USB debugging on the ph...
Kore.ai released Artemis, the latest version of its Kore Agent Platform, a visual and code-based environment for building multi-agent AI systems. The platform includes a declarative Agent Blueprint Language with six built-in orchestration patterns and an automated agent architect tool called Arch.
A developer describes a workflow for exporting AI chat conversations from platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini into PDF, Markdown, and JSON formats, organized by topic, to build a searchable personal archive. The author reports accumulating over 700 exported conversations using a browser ex...
Antigravity's 2.0 IDE redesign drew overwhelmingly negative user feedback citing bugs, poor UX, inadequate model support, and excessive Gemini token consumption. The release appears to have stripped away core IDE functionality in the process.
A developer released `elementor-mcp-agent` v1.0, an open-source Model Context Protocol server enabling Claude to manage WordPress Elementor across multiple client sites. Pre-publication testing against a live WordPress install revealed 7 bugs, including three that would have silently corrupted cl...
Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max language model is now available on Vercel AI Gateway, accessible via the model identifier `alibaba/qwen-3.7-max` in Vercel's AI SDK. The model targets coding, office workflow automation, and multi-agent orchestration tasks.
Claudio is an open-source macOS menu bar app that enables system-wide hold-to-talk dictation by routing audio through Anthropic's speech-to-text API (Deepgram Nova 3), reusing the OAuth token stored by Claude Code. It requires macOS 13 or later and an active Claude Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise s...
Simon Willison released Datasette Agent, a conversational AI assistant for the Datasette data tool that generates SQL queries from natural language questions. It uses a plugin architecture and runs on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite in the live demo at agent.datasette.io.
Docusign announced an MCP Server at its Momentum 2026 conference that connects its agreement platform to third-party AI tools including Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenAI ChatGPT. The company also released an Agreement Manager API, IAM Toolkit, and an updated Developer...
Datasette Agent version 0.1a3 was released, adding "View SQL query" buttons for tables and SQL result tool calls, suppressing empty reasoning chunks, and improving handling of truncated responses so tables remain visible when SQL results are cut off.
SVGicons released an MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector for Claude that enables the AI to search icons and retrieve SVG data via the Claude Messages API. The feature is limited to SVGicons PRO subscribers.
A company launched AIQ Rank, a free tool that scores AI coding proficiency from 0-1000 across 11 dimensions by reading local session activity from tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The tool runs locally without transmitting data, and measures factors like customization, parallel agent us...
Simon Willison released datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2, adding "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts in the Datasette agent plugin.
Some software engineers are shifting from cloud-based AI inference APIs to on-device model inference, citing regulatory compliance costs under GDPR, CCPA, and China's PIPL, and unpredictable tail latency in cloud systems as primary drivers.
Simon Willison released datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0, an alpha-stage Datasette Agent plugin that enables running commands inside a Fly Sprites sandbox environment.