Vibium: The “Zero Drama” Browser Automation Infrastructure for AI Agents Snippet: Vibium is a browser automation infrastructure designed for AI agents, utilizing a single ~10MB Go binary to manage the Chrome lifecycle and expose an MCP server. It enables zero-setup WebDriver BiDi protocol support, allowing Claude Code and JS/TS clients to drive browsers with both async and sync APIs while automatically handling Chrome for Testing installation. Browser automation has long been synonymous with configuration headaches. From matching WebDriver versions to managing headless flags and handling flaky element detection, the “drama” often overshadows the actual utility of the automation. Vibium enters …
Agent Skills: The Open Standard for Extending AI Agent Capabilities Imagine your AI assistant as a skilled craftsman. While basic tools suffice for everyday tasks, specialized projects demand precision instruments. Agent Skills is the standardized system that allows AI agents to dynamically load these specialized capabilities, transforming a general-purpose assistant into a domain-specific expert. This open format provides a structured way to package instructions, scripts, and resources, enabling agents to perform complex tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency. At its heart, Agent Skills addresses a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence: the gap between an agent’s inherent capabilities and the specific, …
FunctionGemma: A Lightweight Open Model Specialized for Function Calling What is FunctionGemma, and why does it matter for building local AI agents? FunctionGemma is a specialized variant of the Gemma 3 270M parameter model, finely tuned specifically for function calling tasks. It serves as a strong foundation for developers to create custom, fast, and private on-device agents that convert natural language inputs into structured API executions. Abstract illustration of open source AI model with circuit connections Image source: Public web illustration representing open AI concepts This model stands out because it prioritizes efficiency on resource-constrained devices while maintaining high performance …
Scaling AI Agents: When Adding More Models Hurts Performance “ Core question: Does adding more AI agents always improve results? Short answer: Only when the task is parallelizable, tool-light, and single-agent accuracy is below ~45%. Otherwise, coordination overhead eats all gains. What This Article Answers How can you predict whether multi-agent coordination will help or hurt before you deploy? What do 180 controlled configurations across finance, web browsing, planning, and office workflows reveal? Which practical checklist can you copy-paste into your next design doc? 1 The Setup: 180 Experiments, One Variable—Coordination Structure Summary: Researchers locked prompts, tools, and token budgets, …
Agent Quality: From Black-Box Hopes to Glass-Box Trust A field manual for teams who build, ship, and sleep with AI Agents Article’s central question “How can we prove an AI Agent is ready for production when every run can behave differently?” Short answer: Stop judging only the final answer; log the entire decision trajectory, measure four pillars of quality, and spin the Agent Quality Flywheel. Why Classic QA Collapses in the Agent Era Core reader query: “My unit tests pass, staging looks fine—why am I still blindsided in prod?” Short answer: Agent failures are silent quality drifts, not hard exceptions, …
Running on a Budget, Yet Smarter—How “Money-Wise” Search Agents Break the Performance Ceiling Keywords: budget-aware tool use, test-time scaling, search agent, BATS, Budget Tracker, cost-performance Pareto frontier Opening: Three Quick Questions Hand an agent 100 free search calls—will it actually use them? If it stops at 30 and calls it a day, will more budget move the accuracy needle? Can we teach the machine to check its wallet before every click? A new joint study by Google, UCSB and NYU says YES. “Simply letting the model see the remaining balance pushes accuracy up while keeping the tab unchanged—or even smaller.” …
Google Interactions API: The Unified Foundation for Gemini Models and Agents (2025 Guide) Featured Snippet Answer (Perfect for Google’s Position 0) Google Interactions API is a single RESTful endpoint (/interactions) that lets developers talk to both Gemini models (gemini-2.5-flash, gemini-3-pro-preview, etc.) and managed agents (deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025) using exactly the same interface. Launched in public beta in December 2025, it adds server-side conversation state, background execution, remote MCP tools, structured JSON outputs, and native streaming — everything modern agentic applications need that the classic generateContent endpoint couldn’t comfortably support. Why I’m Excited About Interactions API (And You Should Be Too) If you’ve …
Google Launches Official MCP Support: Unlocking the Full Potential of AI Agents Across Services The Evolution of AI: From Intelligent Models to Action-Oriented Agents Artificial intelligence has undergone remarkable transformation in recent years. With the introduction of advanced reasoning models like Gemini 3, we now possess unprecedented capabilities to learn, build, and plan. These sophisticated AI systems can process complex information and generate insightful responses. Yet a fundamental question remains: what truly transforms an intelligent model into a practical agent that can solve real-world problems on our behalf? The answer lies not just in raw intelligence, but in the ability …
OceanBase seekdb: An Open Source AI-Native Hybrid Search Database for Multi-model RAG and AI Agents What problem does seekdb solve that traditional databases cannot? Most AI applications need to juggle user profiles, chat logs, JSON metadata, vector embeddings, and spatial data simultaneously, forcing teams to stitch together an OLTP database, a vector store, and a search engine. OceanBase seekdb ends this fragmentation by unifying relational, vector, full-text, JSON, and GIS data in a single engine with built-in AI workflows, enabling true hybrid search without external orchestration. What Makes seekdb Different: Product Positioning and Architecture Core question: Where does seekdb fit …
Acontext: The Intelligent Evolution Platform Giving AI Agents Memory and Experience Have you ever noticed how a powerful AI assistant, after completing a complex task, seems to “reset its memory,” forcing it to start from scratch the next time it faces a similar problem? It’s like having a brilliant but perpetually forgetful employee—full of potential but incapable of learning from experience. This is the core “context amnesia” challenge plaguing many AI Agents today. Let’s explore an open-source project designed to solve this fundamental issue: Acontext. It is more than just a storage tool; it’s an AI Agent’s performance coach and …
Introduction In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable potential in tackling complex problems, from deep research to agentic coding. However, training these agents typically relies heavily on massive, human-curated datasets. This creates a significant scalability bottleneck and inherently limits AI capabilities to the confines of human knowledge. What if agents could learn and evolve autonomously, like students, without external guidance? This is the breakthrough offered by the Agent0 framework. Agent0 is a fully autonomous system that enables agents to self-evolve from zero data via tool-integrated reasoning, achieving continuous capability improvement. This …
Acontext: From Storage to Self-Learning, Building More Reliable AI Agent Systems In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI agent technology, developers are increasingly focused on a core challenge: how to make agents complete tasks more stably and efficiently while continuously accumulating experience to achieve self-improvement. Acontext, a contextual data platform, is designed to address these pain points. It not only stores agents’ conversations and artifacts but also monitors task progress, collects user feedback, and transforms experience into long-term skills through learning—ultimately helping you build more scalable agent products. I. What is Acontext? Put simply, Acontext is a contextual data platform …
Agent Design Is Still Hard Have you ever wondered why building AI agents feels like navigating a maze? Even with all the tools and models available today, putting together an effective agent system involves a lot of trial and error. In this post, I’ll share some practical insights from my recent experiences working on agents, focusing on the challenges and lessons learned. We’ll cover everything from choosing the right SDK to handling caching, reinforcement, and more. If you’re a developer or someone with a technical background looking to build or improve agents, this should give you a solid starting point. …
★AgentEvolver: A Self-Evolving Agent Framework That Writes Its Own Homework, Study Notes, and Report Card★ “ Can a large language model train itself to use tools in a brand-new environment without human-made datasets, dense reward functions, or brute-force sampling? Yes—AgentEvolver gives the model three “super-powers”: write the questions, remember the mistakes, and grade every step. The 7 B version outscores a 14 B baseline on two public benchmarks while using 60 % fewer tokens. 1. Why Most RL Pipelines for Agents Are Too Expensive Pain Point Symptom Cost No training tasks Engineers hand-write hundreds of multi-step questions $1–2 per label, …
The Evolution of AI Agent Capabilities: From Tool Mastery to Common Sense Reasoning Introduction: Beyond Chatbots – The Rise of Autonomous Agents 2025 marked the dawn of the “Agent Era,” but our comprehensive testing of nine leading AI models across 150 real-world tasks revealed a stark reality: even industry-leading systems like GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 experienced a 40% failure rate in complex multi-step operations. This benchmark study exposes critical gaps in current AI capabilities and outlines the developmental trajectory required for true autonomous agency. Chapter 1: Reinforcement Learning Environments – The Proving Ground for Intelligent Agents Defining RL Environments …
As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, single-agent systems increasingly struggle to handle complex real-world tasks. Multi-agent systems have emerged as a solution, enabling sophisticated problem-solving through specialized collaboration. Today, we explore a distributed agent framework built on LangGraph that uses Redis as a message broker, allowing multiple AI agents to work together seamlessly and providing a robust foundation for scalable multi-agent AI systems. What Are Distributed Agent Systems? Imagine a company where experts from different departments work together through efficient communication to complete complex projects. Distributed agent systems adopt this very concept, organizing multiple specialized AI agents where each focuses on …
The Current State of AI Agents: Real-World Challenges and Strategic Approaches for Enterprise Success AI Agent Integration Challenges You’ve probably encountered Clippy—the infamous digital paperclip assistant that Microsoft introduced in 1996. For those who remember it, Clippy was notorious for offering unsolicited advice at the worst possible moments. It became so universally disliked that Microsoft permanently retired it in 2007. This historical footnote matters today because we’re entering a new era of AI assistants. As Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently observed: “Customers look at Microsoft’s Copilot and think, ‘Oh great, Clippy 2.0!’” Meanwhile, Microsoft’s own Satya Nadella countered with: “Copilot? …
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a fundamental challenge persists: how can we create AI systems that truly reason like humans when tackling complex, real-world problems? Traditional AI agents have struggled with tasks requiring multiple tools, long-term planning, and adaptive decision-making. The limitations of current frameworks become especially apparent when agents face environments with thousands of potential tools or require sustained interaction over many steps. DeepAgent represents a paradigm shift in how we approach this challenge. Instead of forcing AI systems into rigid, predefined workflows, DeepAgent unifies thinking, tool discovery, and action execution within a single, coherent reasoning …
Beyond Static Prompts: How Multi-View Instructions Turbo-charge GUI Grounding — A Hands-On Guide to UI-Ins “ Why read this? Because simply re-phrasing the same user intent into four different angles can lift a 7 B model’s pixel-accuracy by up to 76 %—without extra data or heavier back-bones. This article shows you the exact pipeline, code, and training tricks that make it happen. 1 The Invisible Ceiling of One-Angle Instructions Core question answered: “Why do existing GUI-grounding models hit an accuracy wall even when the screenshot is crystal-clear?” Summary: We trace the bottleneck to low-quality, single-angle instructions in public datasets (23 …
Agent Data Protocol (ADP): The Revolutionary Solution Unifying AI Agent Training Data Core Question This Article Addresses How can we solve the fundamental problem of fragmented, inconsistently formatted AI agent training data? How does the ADP protocol integrate scattered training data from different formats into scalable training resources through a standardized representation language? The Data Dilemma in Complex Tasks In the AI large language model era, the pre-training phase benefits from abundant internet-scale data, but the post-training phase faces entirely different challenges. High-quality task-specific data requires careful curation, and agent application scenarios are particularly difficult because models must execute …