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Saturday, Nov 7, 2026
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Agent isolation led the day: a Firecracker rebuild of Google's microVM sandbox, Uber's agent security lessons, and Alex Stamos calling password access for agents 'insane' all point to per-session isolation and no standing credentials.
Tooling is catching up with testable skills and verification gates, including backend skills that cut critical mistakes from 25/150 runs to 2/150.
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Isolation is the common answer: per-session microVMs, per-role containers, and no standing credentials for agents.
A Firecracker rebuild of Google's Agent Compute Engine design (microVM per session, copy-on-write clones from warm snapshots, no network card) supplies the latency numbers Google's post omitted.
Uber argues agents need a different security model than predefined-logic services because they reason over untrusted user and web content.
Alex Stamos warns against handing agents passwords, as Meta ships custom 'spaces' in its Muse assistant.
A coordinator composes role-based agent teams, each role in its own isolated container with access to 99 managed CLI tools.
Skills, dependency manifests, and earned-autonomy gates are turning agent setup into something testable and reproducible.
Declare skills, prompts, instructions, plugins and MCP servers in one apm.yml; apm install deploys them to each supported harness, including GitHub Copilot.
Backend skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor cut critical mistakes from 25 of 150 runs to 2 of 150 in the author's tests.
Open-source orchestration where code checks every result against a delivery contract before an agent stops needing approval.
Team agents run on goals you define, checking releases, instrumentation, cost and agent quality, with autonomy you control.
Generated output needs an independent check: models can know a rule and still miss the defect.
Shows source code can be presented so LLM-based analysis misses a real defect even when the models know the exception.
InfoQ reports on how Grab kept mobile app stability up as AI-generated code changes surged.
Walkthrough that checks every AI conclusion against machine instructions after a wrong pseudo-C branch among 2,000 look-alike functions.
Local and domestic-hardware serving news centers on cache reuse and day-zero hardware support.
Exact-prefix KV-cache reuse in front of llama-server, with benchmarks for TTFT, prefill tokens per second and token savings across ROCm, CUDA, Vulkan and Metal.
Moore Threads GPUs support Kimi K3.1 Pro from release day.
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