// edition · 2026-05-28

May 28, 2026

27 stories on AI dev tools, agents, and the coding stack — curated from the day's RSS haul by Agentic Dev's pipeline.

Top Signal · CLI Agents

Claude Code Slash Commands You Should Know (I wasn't either)

Claude Code includes slash commands for session and context management, including /resume to continue prior sessions, /branch to fork conversations, /diff to review changes, /compact to compress context, and /security-review to audit code before deployment.

Dev.to - Claude

Tool Updates

Getting Started with Claude Code: Your First AI Coding Partner

Anthropic's Claude Code is a command-line interface for AI-assisted software development that reads and writes files, executes commands, manages Git workflows, and reasons across up to 1 million tokens of codebase context. It runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6 by default for Pro users and Opus 4.6 on Max ...

CLI Agents Dev.to - Claude

I built a CLI that scaffolds agentic workflows for Claude Code

A developer released AgentKit, a CLI tool published as @patricksardinha/agentkit-cli on npm, that generates markdown orchestration files to structure multi-agent workflows for Anthropic's Claude Code. The tool requires no API key and works by reading a plain-language project blueprint to produce ...

CLI Agents Dev.to - Claude

Building OpenCode with Dax Raad

OpenCode, an open-source AI coding tool co-founded by Dax Raad, grew from approximately 650,000 to nearly 8 million monthly active users within a few months, alongside nearly 1 million daily active users. After Anthropic blocked integration with Claude Code, OpenCode pursued partnerships with Ope...

CLI Agents Pragmatic Engineer

Building self-improving tax agents with Codex

OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a tax agent using Codex that automates tax filings and incorporates self-improvement mechanisms to increase accuracy and speed up workflows.

CLI Agents OpenAI Blog

Why AI agents need a Context Lake

Scaling AI agents across organizations faces three obstacles: security reviews that can take over nine months, MCP tool overload that consumes up to 150,000 context-window tokens per Anthropic's estimates, and agents lacking basic organizational knowledge. The article proposes a "Context Lake" as...

Agent Engineering The New Stack

Prompting Foundations for Developers — How to Talk to Claude So It Listens

A developer guide on Dev.to outlines prompting techniques for Anthropic's Claude, recommending users specify framework, language, expected behavior, and output format in requests. It also covers chain-of-thought prompting and Claude's extended thinking feature, available on Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4....

Workflows & Tips Dev.to - Claude

How Claude Code Thinks: Inside Your AI Coding Assistant

Anthropic's Claude Code processes code as text through tokenization and pattern matching, without executing it. Current models include Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6/4.7 with 1M-token context windows, and Claude Haiku 4.5 with 200K tokens; the Claude 3 Haiku model has been retired.

CLI Agents Dev.to - Claude

5 Critical Mistakes When Building Modular AI Architecture (And How to Avoid Them)

A software engineering guide identifies five common pitfalls in modular AI architecture: over-modularizing early, inconsistent feature engineering across modules, and related design errors that cause latency increases and data inconsistencies. Recommended fixes include grouping components by chan...

Agent Engineering Dev.to - AI

TIL 5/27/2026

A developer documented setting up Rails user authentication with the Devise gem, using AI coding assistants including Claude Code and FirstDraft Co-pilot. They noted Claude Code consumed tokens rapidly by re-reading full files, prompting a shift to writing more code manually and reserving Claude ...

Workflows & Tips Dev.to - Claude

AiFinPay: Autonomous Payments for ruvnet/ruflo

AiFinPay released a Python SDK ("aifinpay-agent") designed to add payment processing capabilities to autonomous AI agents, and announced a partnership with ruvnet/ruflo, an AI agent orchestration platform.

Agent Engineering Dev.to - AI

Ecosystem

Building a Runtime Continuity Layer for AI Coding Agents

Contorium Labs released Contorium, an open-source runtime continuity layer for AI coding agents that tracks workspace state, git state, and session context across sessions. It is compatible with Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex, and MCP-based agents, and does not use chat history for state per...

Open Source Tools Dev.to - AI

MCP Isn’t Dead: What the Latest MCP Updates Mean for Memory Servers

Anthropic's Claude Code shipped updates in April raising the per-tool MCP output limit to 500,000 characters, adding concurrent server connections, tool search, and lazy loading. The changes allow MCP memory servers to return fuller context payloads per tool call instead of truncating responses t...

MCP & Integrations Dev.to - Claude

Why Your AI Agent Keeps Making the Same Mistakes (It's Not the Model)

A developer released Rein, an open-source tool for Claude Code that monitors AI agent sessions to detect patterns indicating missing scaffolding — such as repeated bugs, context loss, or cost spikes — based on a framework the author calls "Harness Engineering."

Open Source Tools Dev.to - Claude

MCP marketplace: 1000+ bots, any capability, earn per call [89076]

A developer published details of a service called MCP Agent Exchange, a marketplace where developers can register AI agents at a set price per API call and retain 85% of revenue, with a 5% perpetual referral commission for recruiting other developers.

MCP & Integrations Dev.to - Claude

sqlite AGENTS.md

SQLite added an AGENTS.md file stating it does not accept AI-generated code, later strengthening the language by removing the qualifier "currently." The project also created a separate bug forum after its main forum was flooded with AI-generated bug reports of varying quality.

Opinion & Analysis Simon Willison

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Anthropic and OpenAI both switched enterprise AI coding tool pricing from flat-rate seat licenses to API token-based billing — Anthropic in November 2025 and OpenAI in April 2026 — resulting in unexpectedly large bills for corporate customers. Anthropic is reportedly approaching its first profita...

Opinion & Analysis Simon Willison

Microsoft Agent 365: The Future of AI Agent Management for Businesses

Microsoft Agent 365, marketed as a centralized control plane for enterprise AI agents, is available for purchase through iDreams.ai and offers tools for discovering, monitoring, securing, and governing AI agents across an organization. The platform integrates with Microsoft Defender, Entra, Purvi...

Industry & Funding Dev.to - AI