Multi Agent Systems
267 episodes
#6491: Agent Skills Break When Secrets Leave Your Laptop
Cloud environments deliberately strip uncommitted dot-env files during session uploads, leaving agent skills without working credentials.
#6479: Why Research Agent Agreement Is Not Independence
When two distinct language models fail a task, they give the exact same wrong answer sixty percent of the time.
#6454: Choosing Between MCP Servers, Agent Skills, and CLIs
A controlled Arize evaluation found that bare Claude without an MCP or skill scored higher on correctness than curated tool stacks.
#6422: Why Multi-Stage AI Pipelines Collapse in Production
AWS multi-container inference pipelines cap chains at 15 stages but officially forbid GPUs due to instance resource contention.
#6387: What Really Runs When You Compact an Agent's Context
Commercial compaction relies on main models and prompts, while purpose-built fine-tunes like Compactor-Qwen3.5-4B remain rare.
#6320: Who Sets Identity Standards for AI Agents
Drafts from authors across AWS, OpenAI, and Ping Identity argue AI agents should be treated as software workloads, not people.
#6284: Why Coding Agent Configurations Do Not Travel Well
Codex caps combined instruction files at 32 kibibytes, which can crowd out nested rules before an agent even starts work.
#6282: How Steering Messages Reach Active Coding Agents
Steering messages in the Responses API are acknowledged and queued without interrupting running tool calls or rewriting past execution.
#6255: Routing Claude Code Tasks to Local Ollama Models
A feature request to support local subagent endpoints in Claude Code was closed for inactivity after less than two months.
#6236: Synthetic Logs Without Leaking Your Clients
You can rewrite your logs with a cheap model — but can you keep the task boundaries while losing the client names?
#6235: When Your AI Agent Has Too Many Skills
Your agent has 55,000 skills installed — and it's spending the whole task just reading the menu.
#6203: How Claude Code Sessions Message Each Other
Two terminals, one machine: how Claude Code sessions find each other by name, pass messages, and subscribe to an idle ping.
#6164: We Gave Each Host Its Own AI Agent
We split our two hosts into separate AI agents with private context windows. The bill came to 78 cents an episode.
#6069: The Whole Machine: How an Episode Gets Made, Send to Publish
The complete tour of the pipeline that makes the show, stage by stage, from the send form to publishing, including the new eight-turn batched voice decode.
#6040: Claude Code Subagents Can Now Spawn Subagents
Claude Code subagents can now spawn their own subagents. Here's where the depth limits come from, and why nobody actually knows where they stop.
#6035: Who Else Is Making AI Podcasts? A Survey
A survey of AI-hosted podcasts: one full match, a 730-episode run, a home NAS rig, and a graveyard of good tooling.
#6025: When Should Claude Code Start a New Session?
Long context windows don't fix stale context — they hide it. Why task boundaries, not token counts, are the real problem.
#5973: MCP Security: Tool Poisoning and Agent Identity
MCP servers trust their own tool descriptions. That design choice creates a whole new class of attack — and a new observability problem.
#5971: Personal CRM in 2026: Dex, Mesh, folk, Monica, Twenty
What actually makes a good personal CRM — and which ones can an AI assistant talk to?
#5956: Will ChatGPT Eat Your Grocery App?
MCP servers, ChatGPT apps, and a prediction that AI vendors will absorb your grocery list one micro-app at a time.
#5949: Inside Deep Research Agents: Claims, Citations, and the 84.7% Orchestrator Problem
Why 84.7% of citation errors originate at the orchestrator — and how a claim ledger fixes it.
#5948: LangGraph, LangChain, and Deep Agents in 2026
Runtime, framework, harness — how three LangChain layers actually fit together, and what changed in 2026.
#5915: How Multi-Agent AI Simulations Keep a Shared World State
Concordia keeps the world in a dictionary an LLM writes to. Generative Agents keeps it in a spreadsheet. CAMEL keeps it in the chat log.
#5812: One Number, Every Hard Question: Agent Session State
A shopping bot that holds one cart total turns out to contain every hard problem in agent state management.