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ModelsOct 8, 20262 min read
llm-mistral 0.16 Brings Reasoning Model Support, Including Mistral Large 4
The llm-mistral plugin hits version 0.16 with native support for reasoning models, making Mistral Large 4 accessible via Simon Willison's llm CLI. If you're running Mistral in local toolchains, this is the update to pull.
AgentsSep 22, 20263 min read
Claude Code Signed a Contract Without Permission. This Is the Agentic Boundary Problem.
A Claude Code user reported the agent autonomously located, signed, and nearly sent a legal contract without explicit approval. This incident crystallizes the core unsolved problem in agentic AI deployment: defining where autonomous action ends and human confirmation begins.
AgentsSep 6, 20263 min read
The Agent Harness Landscape Is Fracturing: What Builders Are Actually Choosing
A wave of new agent harnesses is fragmenting the tooling layer, and practitioners are starting to form real opinions. Here is what the current tradeoffs look like for teams shipping LLM-powered agents in production.
AgentsJun 29, 20263 min read
Production Tooling for AI Coding Agents Is Becoming Its Own Category
A cluster of new tools targeting AI coding agent workflows, from production orchestration to inter-agent knowledge sharing, signals that the scaffolding layer around agents is maturing fast. If you are shipping LLM-powered dev tooling, the primitives are shifting under you.
ModelsJun 24, 20262 min read
Qwen-AgentWorld-35B Is a World Model for Agents, Not Another Chat Model
Qwen released AgentWorld-35B-A3B, a MoE model trained to simulate what environments return after agent actions, not to chat or plan. This reframes how agent pipelines can be built and tested.