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Jun 17, 2026 80 leads scanned 8 sources
A tiny anti-slop zine for agents, tools, model ops, and actually useful AI weirdness. No X API toll paid.

Editor picks

Thinking, experiments, papers, and opinionated field notes first. Releases are useful, but they live downstairs now.
#01
Hacker News · hn · Jun 16

Show HN: Ctx, save tokens by loading only the relevant tools

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. Plain version: Skill, agent, MCP, and harness recommendations for Claude Code/custom LLMs: 102,928-node LLM-wiki graph, 91,464 skills, 467 agents, 10,790 MCPs, 207 harnesses, and capped execution recommendations.

Why you might care

Directly relevant to context bloat and tool-loading discipline. If it is good, it may inform how Hermes/OAC keeps prompts lean.

Source excerpt

Skill, agent, MCP, and harness recommendations for Claude Code/custom LLMs: 102,928-node LLM-wiki graph, 91,464 skills, 467 agents, 10,790 MCPs, 207 harnesses, and capped execution recommendations. - stevesolun/ctx

hnAI agents tool usedeep-summary
read64.6agent, agents, mcp, tool use
#02
Hacker News · hn · Jun 16

Show HN: GitHits Public Beta 0.9

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. Plain version: GitHits grounds AI coding agents in real open-source implementations so they stop guessing, avoid retry loops, and keep moving forward.

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

GitHits grounds AI coding agents in real open-source implementations so they stop guessing, avoid retry loops, and keep moving forward.

hnMCP agent LLMdeep-summary
read49.8agent, agents, mcp
#03
Hacker News · hn · Jun 5

Show HN: InferBench – Benchmark local LLM engines with one click

Editor's read

A community-submitted project/thread. Plain version: Benchmark local LLM inference speed (tokens/sec) on your own hardware — llama.cpp native + cloud APIs, 124-model catalog, optimal-quant picker, and an MCP serve mode.

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

Benchmark local LLM inference speed (tokens/sec) on your own hardware — llama.cpp native + cloud APIs, 124-model catalog, optimal-quant picker, and an MCP serve mode. - JoniMartin27/inferbench

hnlocal LLM inferencedeep-summary
read47.0mcp, benchmark, local llm, inference
#04
OpenAI News · feed · Jun 14

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

openaimodelsagents
skim40.9agents
#05
arXiv · paper · Jun 16

EventDrive: Event Cameras for Vision-Language Driving Intelligence

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Event cameras sense the world through asynchronous brightness changes with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, offering motion fidelity far beyond frame-based sensors and capturing temporal structure t…

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

Event cameras sense the world through asynchronous brightness changes with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, offering motion fidelity far beyond frame-based sensors and capturing temporal structure that conventional exposures often miss. These properties make events a powerful complement to RGB in autonomous driving, especially under blur, glare, and rapid motion, where frame-based perception can become un…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.CV
paper shelf38.6agent, agents, eval, benchmark

Articles / research / opinions

The stuff people are thinking, trying, arguing, and building with the tech. This is the main read pile.
#06
arXiv · paper · Jun 16

EBench: Elemental Diagnosis of Generalist Mobile Manipulation Policies

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: We present EBench, a simulation benchmark that diagnoses generalist mobile manipulation policies beyond a single success-rate scalar.

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

We present EBench, a simulation benchmark that diagnoses generalist mobile manipulation policies beyond a single success-rate scalar. EBench comprises 26 diverse and challenging manipulation tasks annotated along 5 capability dimensions and 4 generalization dimensions. We evaluate state-of-the-art generalist manipulation models including $π_0$, $π_{0.5}$, XVLA, and InternVLA-A1, and reveal that models with near succ…

paperLLM evaluation benchmark agentscs.RO
paper shelf38.6agent, agents, eval, benchmark
#07
Latent Space · feed · Jun 4

Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: We talk with the VendingBench authors on evaling Claudes from Haiku to Mythos, and how they build leading, and lasting, frontier evals from scratch.

Why you might care

Evals are how we avoid vibes-only agent work. Useful if it suggests tests we can adapt for Hermes/OAC reliability.

Source excerpt

We talk with the VendingBench authors on evaling Claudes from Haiku to Mythos, and how they build leading, and lasting, frontier evals from scratch.

aiindustryagents
skim38.0agents, eval
#08
Simon Willison · feed · Jun 16

datasette-tailscale 0.1a0

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This starts a localhost…

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This starts a localhost Datasette server with a Tailscale sidecar that connects it to your Tailnet, such that http://datasette-preview/ serves Datasette. It's using the Pytho…

llmtoolspractical
skim37.5feed
#09
Simon Willison · feed · Jun 16

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbreak" that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really was "fix this code": The researchers took open-source code with known CVEs, plus new code with delib…

llmtoolspractical
skim36.6feed
#10
Simon Willison · feed · Jun 15

Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic

Editor's read

A post from Simon Willison. Plain version: Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Moussouris said, involved IT experts asking Fable to help find and patch bugs. When given deliberately in…

llmtoolspractical
skim36.5feed
#11
Latent Space · feed · Jun 12

[AINews] Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy

aiindustryagents
skim36.5agents
#12
OpenAI News · feed · Jun 11

How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning

Editor's read

A post from OpenAI News. Plain version: Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.

openaimodelsagents
skim36.0agents
#13
arXiv · paper · Jun 16

Superconductivity from interband coupling to ferroelectric quantum critical fluctuations in two dimensions

Editor's read

A research paper. In human terms: Soft critical fluctuations associated with ferroelectric quantum phase transitions are typically transverse owing to their polar nature.

Why you might care

This maps directly onto OAC: what agents remember, what they should forget, and how not to build a cursed context landfill.

Source excerpt

Soft critical fluctuations associated with ferroelectric quantum phase transitions are typically transverse owing to their polar nature. This implies that the conventional density--density electron--phonon coupling to these modes is strongly suppressed, which is puzzling as a variety of materials exhibit enhanced superconductivity in the vicinity of ferroelectricity. An alternative coupling mechanism is an interband…

paperlarge language model agents memorycond-mat.supr-concond-mat.str-el
paper shelf34.6agent, agents, memory
#14
Latent Space · feed · Jun 10

[AINews] Open Models, Model Labs vs Agent Labs, and What's Untrainable — Sarah Guo

Editor's read

A post from Latent Space. Plain version: A source lead with no useful publisher summary. Use the title as the hook, then only open it if the topic matches today’s agent/tooling work: [AINews] Open Models, Model Labs vs Agent Labs, and What's Untrainable — Sarah Guo.

Why you might care

Kept because it matched the radar’s AI/agent/tooling filters. Skim title + source first; open only if it lines up with current Hermes/OAC work.

Source excerpt

a quiet day lets us reflect on a great essay

aiindustryagents
skim34.5agents

Releases / software updates

Important for staying current, but intentionally below the longform material. Changelogs are seasoning, not dinner.
#01
GitHub · release · May 26

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.17.4

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: feat: support Realtime custom voice objects by @lionel-oai in * fix: #3459 add opt-in recovery for missing function tools by @seratch in * fix: apply hardened http client default to MCP SSE transport by @ioleksiuk in

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed * feat: support Realtime custom voice objects by @lionel-oai in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3473 * fix: #3459 add opt-in recovery for missing function tools by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3461 * fix: apply hardened http client default to MCP SSE transport by @ioleksiuk in https://…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
watch release51.0agent, agents, mcp, openai agents
#02
GitHub · release · Jun 5

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (2026.6.5) — The Surface Release

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: The Surface Release. Hermes meets you wherever you work. A brand-new na…

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.16.0 (v2026.6.5) **Release Date:** June 5, 2026 **Since v0.15.2:** 874 commits · 542 merged PRs · 1,962 files changed · 205,216 insertions · 46,217 deletions · 399 issues closed (2 P0, 62 P1, 16 security-tagged) · 170 community contributors (including co-authors) > **The Surface Release.** Hermes meets you wherever you work. A brand-new na…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#03
GitHub · release · May 29

Hermes Agent: Hermes Agent v0.15.2 (2026.5.29.2)

Release note

A new release/update from Hermes Agent. Plain version: Packaging): ship bundled plugin.yaml manifests in wheel and sdist (827f7f07) ## 👥 Contributors Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!

Why you might care

Directly relevant to your agent stack. This can affect Hermes behavior, upgrade timing, plugins, gateway surfaces, or ideas worth stealing for OAC/DestructoR666.

Source excerpt

# Hermes Agent v0.15.2 (v2026.5.29.2) **Release Date:** May 29, 2026 ## 🐛 Bug Fixes - Packaging): ship bundled plugin.yaml manifests in wheel and sdist ([`827f7f07`](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/commit/827f7f07825be57108cbea18325e8f5e9fb5d2f2)) ## 👥 Contributors Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! - @outsourc-e (1 commit)…

hermesagent-opsNousResearch/hermes-agent
watch release48.0hermes, hermes
#04
GitHub · release · Jun 16

MCP Python SDK: v2.0.0a2

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: Full 2026-07-28 types added…

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

Second v2 alpha. Pre-releases are opt-in only; `pip install mcp` still resolves to the stable 1.x line. ```bash pip install mcp==2.0.0a2 # or uv add "mcp==2.0.0a2" ``` See the [migration guide](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration.md) for the full list of breaking changes. ## Highlights ### Full 2026-07-28 types added…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
skim changelog40.9mcp
#05
GitHub · release · Jun 16

MCP Python SDK: v1.28.0

Release note

A new release/update from MCP Python SDK. Plain version: Deprecations Two API surfaces now emit DeprecationWarning ahead of their removal in v2.

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

## Deprecations Two API surfaces now emit `DeprecationWarning` ahead of their removal in v2. Nothing is removed in 1.x, and the warnings fire only when the deprecated API is *called* - importing the modules stays silent. - **WebSocket transport** - `mcp.client.websocket.websocket_client` and `mcp.server.websocket.websocket_server`. WebSocket was never part…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/python-sdk
skim changelog40.9mcp
#06
GitHub · release · Jun 16

LangGraph: langgraph-cli==0.4.30

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: cli==0.4.29 * release(cli): 0.4.30 (#8101) * feat(cli): support compatible api version ranges (#8023) * docs: standardize package README.md structure (#8064)

Why you might care

Useful as a contrast model for workflow/stateful agents. Even if we do not adopt it, it exposes design patterns and footguns for OAC-style continuity.

Source excerpt

Changes since cli==0.4.29 * release(cli): 0.4.30 (#8101) * feat(cli): support compatible api version ranges (#8023) * docs: standardize package `README.md` structure (#8064)

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog40.7agents, workflow
#07
GitHub · release · May 18

OpenAI Agents Python: v0.17.3

Release note

A new release/update from OpenAI Agents Python. Plain version: fix: keep mountpoint credentials out of sandbox commands by @seratch in * fix: unify memory optional dependency import errors by @seratch in * fix: guard None text in text_message_output and add output guardrail count to RunE…

Why you might care

Competitive intel: how OpenAI thinks agent SDKs should work, where Hermes is ahead/behind, and patterns we might borrow without joining the mothership.

Source excerpt

## What's Changed * fix: keep mountpoint credentials out of sandbox commands by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3429 * fix: unify memory optional dependency import errors by @seratch in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/3389 * fix: guard None text in text_message_output and add output guardrail count to RunE…

agentssdkopenai/openai-agents-python
skim changelog37.0agents, memory, openai agents
#08
GitHub · release · Apr 1

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/node@2.0.0-alpha.1

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Patch Changes - #1504 327243c Thanks @corvid-agent!

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

### Patch Changes - [#1504](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/1504) [`327243c`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/327243cebd96e07686c88f7fa9ca22a5a7a7993d) Thanks [@corvid-agent](https://github.com/corvid-agent)! - Add missing `hono` peer dependency to `@modelcontextprotocol/node`. The package already de…

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog37.0agent, mcp
#09
GitHub · release · Jun 12

LangGraph: langgraph==1.2.5

Release note

A new release/update from LangGraph. Plain version: 1.2.4 * release(langgraph): 1.2.5 (#8062) * fix(langgraph): merge lc_versions config metadata (#8052) * release(cli): 0.4.28 (#8041) * fix: updateState bug for deltaChannel on empty thread (#8011) * chore: migrate Python type che…

Why you might care

Useful as a contrast model for workflow/stateful agents. Even if we do not adopt it, it exposes design patterns and footguns for OAC-style continuity.

Source excerpt

Changes since 1.2.4 * release(langgraph): 1.2.5 (#8062) * fix(langgraph): merge `lc_versions` config metadata (#8052) * release(cli): 0.4.28 (#8041) * fix: updateState bug for deltaChannel on empty thread (#8011) * chore: migrate Python type checking to ty (#8002) * chore(deps-dev): bump types-requests from 2.33.0.20260408 to 2.33.0.20260518 in /libs/langgr…

agentsworkflowlangchain-ai/langgraph
skim changelog33.6agents, workflow
#10
GitHub · release · Apr 1

MCP TypeScript SDK: @modelcontextprotocol/server@2.0.0-alpha.2

Release note

A new release/update from MCP TypeScript SDK. Plain version: Patch Changes - #1840 424cbae Thanks @KKonstantinov!

Why you might care

MCP is becoming the plumbing layer for agent tools. Worth watching because it shapes what Hermes/OAC can connect to without bespoke glue code.

Source excerpt

### Patch Changes - [#1840](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/pull/1840) [`424cbae`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/commit/424cbaeee13b7fe18d38048295135395b9ad81bb) Thanks [@KKonstantinov](https://github.com/KKonstantinov)! - tsdown exports resolution fix

mcptoolsmodelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk
skim changelog30.0mcp

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