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54 articles on AI memory, agent engineering and production AI, newest first.

How to Reduce LLM Token Costs in Long Conversations: What Caching Saves, and Where It Stops
LLM Cost & Production

How to Reduce LLM Token Costs in Long Conversations: What Caching Saves, and Where It Stops

A long conversation costs far more than its number of turns suggests, because every request carries the system prompt and the entire history again, so total input grows with the square of the number of turns.

2026-09-26
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Claude API Pricing in 2026: Every Model per Million Tokens, and What Pro and Max Cost
LLM Cost & Production

Claude API Pricing in 2026: Every Model per Million Tokens, and What Pro and Max Cost

The Claude API costs between $1 and $10 per million input tokens and between $5 and $50 per million output tokens on Anthropic's current models.

2026-09-26
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9 Essential Claude Skills for AI Engineers Building Production Agents + 1 Bonus Skill
Claude Code & Coding Agents

9 Essential Claude Skills for AI Engineers Building Production Agents + 1 Bonus Skill

Nine Claude Skills we run in production, plus one bonus, with the install command for each and what it saves you. Updated September 2026.

Updated 25 September 2026
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What is WebMCP?  When and How to Use WebMCP in a Browser Agent?
MCP & Agent Protocols

What is WebMCP? When and How to Use WebMCP in a Browser Agent?

The decision is per step, not per site: a page can expose a clean search tool and leave its account settings as ordinary DOM controls, so an agent that picks one mode per domain gets the worst of both.

2026-09-23
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Best Chatbot Memory Layer Plugins for Persistent User Data Retention and Memory
AI Agent Memory

Best Chatbot Memory Layer Plugins for Persistent User Data Retention and Memory

The best chatbot memory layer plugin captures durable user information, stores it with the right scope, retrieves only the relevant part of it, and updates or deletes it reliably.

2026-09-22
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The Best AI Agent Memory Layers in 2026, Ranked on Axes You Can Verify
AI Agent Memory

The Best AI Agent Memory Layers in 2026, Ranked on Axes You Can Verify

No single AI agent memory layer is best in 2026. The right one depends on tenant isolation, contradiction handling, where you can run it, and what a retrieval costs, all of which you can check in an afternoon.

2026-09-18
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How To Use Jev In Your AI Agent: A Map Of Decision Seams
Claude Code & Coding Agents

How To Use Jev In Your AI Agent: A Map Of Decision Seams

Jev cannot write a single word, which is the reason to care about it, so the question worth asking is never whether it should be your agent but which decisions inside your agent it should own.

2026-09-18
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AI Agent Evals: The Judge Is The Part Nobody Measures
Agent Evals & Observability

AI Agent Evals: The Judge Is The Part Nobody Measures

An LLM judge scoring the same agent output three times will often hand back three different answers, and almost no guide to agent evaluation asks whether the judge agrees with itself or what it costs to run on everything rather than a sample.

2026-09-18
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Agent Memory Is a Real Problem. Most Builders Just Have Not Hit It Yet.
AI Agent Memory

Agent Memory Is a Real Problem. Most Builders Just Have Not Hit It Yet.

Every LLM call is stateless; agent frameworks solve that within a single run, which is why the memory problem only shows up once the run ends.

2026-09-18
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Best Claude Code Skills in 2026: 12 New Skills and What Changed
Claude Code & Coding Agents

Best Claude Code Skills in 2026: 12 New Skills and What Changed

Important Claude Code skills shipped since February 2026, what each replaces, install commands, and the security problem that came with the marketplace.

August 10, 2026
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MCP 2026-07-28: 20 Breaking Changes and the Errors They Cause
MCP & Agent Protocols

MCP 2026-07-28: 20 Breaking Changes and the Errors They Cause

MCP 2026-07-28 removed sessions, the initialize handshake, and the ability for servers to initiate requests at all. It is wire-incompatible in both directions, so nothing breaks until a client upgrades underneath you. This is the full diff, every error you will hit with the fix for each, the HTTP+SSE deadline that two official sources disagree about, and a scorecard of what the release left alone.

July 29, 2026
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Agentic Context Management: Agent Memory Is Not Merely a Storage & Retrieval Problem, It Is an Architecture Problem
Context Engineering

Agentic Context Management: Agent Memory Is Not Merely a Storage & Retrieval Problem, It Is an Architecture Problem

We argue in our latest paper, that agent memory and cost is a lifecycle and architecture problem

July 25, 2026
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Why OpenAI shipped an Official Plugin for Claude Code
Claude Code & Coding Agents

Why OpenAI shipped an Official Plugin for Claude Code

OpenAI ships Codex plugin for ClaudeCode harness

July 13, 2026
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An Anthropic Leader Told a Room of Founders to Stop Worrying About Context Windows. Here's the catch
Context Engineering

An Anthropic Leader Told a Room of Founders to Stop Worrying About Context Windows. Here's the catch

An Anthropic researcher told a room of founders to stop worrying about context windows. Here is the question I did not get to ask, and why a bigger window solves short-term memory with bad tradeoffs and does nothing for long-term memory.

June 5, 2026
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Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for Pipecat
Agent Frameworks

Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for Pipecat

Maximem Synap's persistent agent memory now integrates with Pipecat. Per-caller persistence, entity resolution, and 92% LongMemEval, 93.2% on LoCoMo accuracy for production voice and multimodal pipelines.

June 3, 2026
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Maximem Synap & LiveKit Agents Integration
Agent Frameworks

Maximem Synap & LiveKit Agents Integration

Maximem Synap's persistent agent memory now integrates with LiveKit Agents. Per-caller persistence, entity resolution, and 92% LongMemEval, 93.2% on LoCoMo accuracy for production voice agents.

June 3, 2026
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Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Connected To Semantic Kernel
Agent Frameworks

Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Connected To Semantic Kernel

Maximem Synap's persistent agent memory now integrates with Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Per-user persistence, entity resolution, and 92% LongMemEval, 93.2% on LoCoMo accuracy for .NET and Python production agents.

June 3, 2026
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Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for AutoGen
Agent Frameworks

Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for AutoGen

Maximem Synap's persistent agent memory now integrates with AutoGen. Per-user persistence, entity resolution, and 92% LongMemEval, 93.2% on LoCoMo accuracy for Microsoft multi-agent production systems.

May 29, 2026
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Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for CrewAI
Agent Frameworks

Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for CrewAI

Maximem Synap's persistent agent memory now integrates with CrewAI. Per-user persistence, entity resolution, and 92% LongMemEval, 93.2% on LoCoMo accuracy for multi-agent production workflows.

May 29, 2026
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Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for Google ADK
Agent Frameworks

Maximem Synap's Agent Memory Now Available for Google ADK

Maximem Synap's persistent agent memory now integrates with Google ADK. Per-user persistence, entity resolution, and 92% LongMemEval, 93.2% on LoCoMo accuracy for GCP production agents.

May 29, 2026
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Maximem Synap Updates: Higher Scores, 17 Integrations, and a Live Playground
Research & Product Updates

Maximem Synap Updates: Higher Scores, 17 Integrations, and a Live Playground

Synap updates: 92% LongMemEval (up from 90.2%), 93.2% LOCOMO, 17 framework integrations, a browser playground, public pricing, and a free accuracy eval on your own agent.

May 27, 2026
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Memory Is Now Table Stakes for AEO Tools. Profound's Launch Just Proved It.
AI Agent Memory

Memory Is Now Table Stakes for AEO Tools. Profound's Launch Just Proved It.

Profound shipped conversation memory. Stateless AEO tools are now behind. Here is the category signal, the three layers they need, and why building in-house is the wrong bet.

May 27, 2026
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The state of AI memory in 2026: claimed vs observed
AI Agent Memory

The state of AI memory in 2026: claimed vs observed

Independent reproduction of AI memory benchmark claims in 2026. LongMemEval and LoCoMo results from an open harness, with published vs. observed numbers for Mem0, Zep, SuperMemory and Synap.

May 27, 2026
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Vity vs Obsidian for AI Agent Memory
AI Agent Memory

Vity vs Obsidian for AI Agent Memory

Technical comparison of Vity and Obsidian for AI agent memory. Covers context rot, entity resolution, cross-AI coverage, setup complexity, and security.

May 27, 2026
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