Context Engineering with Deep Agents: How To Remember Without Keeping Everything In Context
Offloading, summarization, skills, subagents, and memory keep a long-running agent's context window focused instead of growing without bound.
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Agent builders got practical patterns today: context engineering for long-running agents, a code review agent design, and 10,000-agent runs lasting 36+ hours.
Underneath, serving and spend controls are maturing, with vLLM's push-based KV transfer and BigQuery's cost management for AI functions, while Antigravity's local-model support pushes agents onto developer machines.
Builders are publishing concrete patterns for keeping long-running and code-writing agents focused and checkable.
Offloading, summarization, skills, subagents, and memory keep a long-running agent's context window focused instead of growing without bound.
Greptile walks through building a code review agent, a concrete reference design for the review step of an agent pipeline.
Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours on GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, a data point for multi-day agent runs that improve with use.
Amp uses GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, and GPT-Live-1 to run agents beyond coding, with Sign in with ChatGPT for user auth.
A smoke-test runner for coding agent CLIs, aimed at catching regressions across agent versions.
Serving latency and spend are getting purpose-built controls, from KV transfer to SQL-level budgets.
vLLM's push-based NIXL connector has the prefill instance write KV directly into decode memory over RDMA, targeting TTFT and TPOT in disaggregated serving.
BigQuery adds cost management for AI.GENERATE, AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, and AI.SCORE so LLM calls inside SQL have predictable spend.
AMD MI355X posts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash results on AA-AgentPerf, adding a non-Nvidia agent-workload data point.
Modal crossed $1B annualized run rate and raised a $750M Series D led by Accel for AI application infrastructure.
Security work this week centers on attested private compute, agent authorization, and faster malware triage.
Meta extends Private Processing to AI glasses using confidential VMs, TEEs, remote attestation, anonymous credentials, and OHTTP routing.
With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours.
An authorization gateway that sits between AI agents and their tools.
DeepMind and GovTech Singapore fine-tune lightweight on-device Gemma models to catch conversational scams with no cloud data.
Agent SDKs are adding local execution while Chinese open models close in on the US frontier.
Google's Antigravity SDK now supports local models, so agentic workflows can run on a developer's machine for token efficiency and code privacy.
Reporting puts China's open AI models about seven months behind the US frontier.
Anthropic opens its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signs an MOU on AI safety, evaluation, and responsible adoption.
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