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Agentic AI Infrastructure

Step-through demos of OBO, MCP, A2A, and the protocols making AI agents work.

AI Agents: Why Context Infrastructure May Be Your Best Long-Term Investment

· 6 min read

Training depreciates. Code depreciates. Access to a frontier model takes a credit card. The lasting advantage is the information infrastructure that makes every future model more valuable.

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AI Agents: Why Context Infrastructure May Be Your Best Long-Term Investment

Agentic AI: Curated Questions for the Boardroom

· 5 min read

AI agents bring potential and risk at a scale we haven't seen before. These are the questions I'd bring to the table.

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Agentic AI: Curated Questions for the Boardroom

Your Coding Agent Needs a Sandbox: Docker Sandbox vs Native vs DevContainers

· 7 min read

Coding agents need containment by design. Here's how native sandboxes from Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI compare to Docker's new microVM approach.

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Your Coding Agent Needs a Sandbox: Docker Sandbox vs Native vs DevContainers

AI Agents Need the Inverse of Human Trust

· 4 min read

When you can't trust common sense, you need to verify ruthlessly. That's the shift agents require.

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AI Agents Need the Inverse of Human Trust

AI Agent Reliability Is Getting Easier. The Hard Part Is Shifting.

· 3 min read

What Claude Code's shrinking scaffolding tells us about where agent engineering is heading.

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AI Agent Reliability Is Getting Easier. The Hard Part Is Shifting.

LF Decentralized Trust Member Summit: 10 Years of Building Trust Together

· 2 min read

Reflections from the LFDT Member Summit 10th Anniversary at DTCC in Jersey City. A room full of industry leaders and a shared conviction that trust infrastructure needs all of us.

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LF Decentralized Trust Member Summit: 10 Years of Building Trust Together

AI Agents and the EU AI Act: Risk That Won't Sit Still

· 6 min read

The AI Act regulates use cases, not technology. But agents complicate the classification because their use case emerges at runtime.

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AI Agents and the EU AI Act: Risk That Won't Sit Still

ERC-8004 Goes Mainnet: Ethereum's Trust Layer for AI Agents

· 3 min read

The missing trust layer for cross-org agent interactions just launched on Ethereum mainnet

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ERC-8004 Goes Mainnet: Ethereum's Trust Layer for AI Agents

Auth for Agent Builders: A Crash Course

· 5 min read

The auth protocols AI agents inherit: from OAuth to OBO, SPIFFE to TSP

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Auth for Agent Builders: A Crash Course

Trusted AI Agents: Why Traditional IAM Breaks Down

· 4 min read

When agents create intent instead of forwarding it, delegation becomes abdication. Here's what that means for identity.

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Trusted AI Agents: Why Traditional IAM Breaks Down