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Set Up Cursor Automations (intermediate) — Event-driven agents from PagerDuty/GitHub/Slack triggers with isolated sandboxes. Cursor Blog
Apply Context Engineering to Cut Agent Costs 60-80% (advanced) — Hierarchical token budgets, dynamic tool filtering (max 15), automatic compaction at 70%. Maxim AI
Mitigate Context Rot in RAG Systems (intermediate) — Chroma's study: maintain 0.7+ needle-question similarity, minimize distractors, front-load critical info, experiment with context shuffling. Chroma Research
Build Event-Driven Multi-Agent Systems with Kafka (advanced) — Four patterns (orchestrator-worker, hierarchical, blackboard, market-based) as Kafka consumer groups. Confluent
Hoard Working Examples for Agent Recombination (beginner) — Willison's core insight: every working code example becomes a composable building block. Two examples + one prompt = new tool. Simon Willison
Implement OWASP Secure MCP Server Checklist (intermediate) — OAuth 2.1, session isolation, JSON Schema validation, container isolation, TLS, tool description integrity verification. OWASP
Audit MCP Servers with SlowMist Checklist (intermediate) — Five-layer audit: UI/host, client, server/plugin, multi-MCP collaboration, domain-specific. Test with MasterMCP. SlowMist GitHub
Train Hybrid Transformer-RNN Models (advanced) — OLMo Hybrid's 3:1 GDN/attention pattern for 2x data efficiency. Deploy with VLLM workarounds. Interconnects
Build Outcome-Based Pricing for AI SaaS (intermediate) — Six pricing models from usage-based to outcome-based. Start with hybrid subscription + overage. Use Lago or Stripe Billing. Lago
Build Enterprise Agent Governance Framework (intermediate) — Four-dimension assessment, decision hierarchies, cost controls, agent registry. Prevent the 40% cancellation rate Gartner predicts. Gartner
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1. KV-Cache-Aware Context Engineering (Advanced) — 10x cost reduction by treating cache hit rate as your most important metric. Make system prompts stable, use append-only history, static tools with logit masking. Manus Blog 2. Claude Code Agent Teams (Intermediate) — Run coor...
1. OWASP MCP Top 10 Security Audit (Intermediate) Systematically audit your MCP servers against the OWASP MCP Top 10. Download the checklist, inventory all servers, test each against 10 categories (injection, auth bypass, confused deputy), prioritize by CVSS, remediate critica...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Cursor 3 launched on April 2. Not an update. A full rebuild. The editor is now secondary to what they're calling an agent orchestration workspace. You can run unlimited parallel agents, locally or in the cloud, launch them from your phone or Slack or Linear, and manage them in...
Version 0.0.7 lets you authorize MCP servers per channel, hot-reload MCP config, and use OAuth plus device auth for the Slack and GitHub integrations. Subagents gained several shapes: background expendable, fork-mode, fresh, and per-task tool selection. The channel-scoping is...
GitHub added allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers keys to enterprise Copilot managed settings on August 6, configured to fail closed on malformed config, then followed on August 7 with a usage API exposing totals_by_3rd_party_agent for per-agent spend attribution (digitalapp...
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