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Docker's official agent plugin. YAML-defined multi-agent systems with MCP, RAG, memory. Agents ship as OCI container images through Docker Hub. Agent distribution follows the container playbook. docker/docker-agent
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Docker's formal entry into agent infrastructure isn't just another tool launch — it's a platform-level event that could reshape how agents are packaged and deployed. Docker Engineering released docker-agent, an official AI Agent Builder and Runtime written in Go, reaching 2,46...
Apache-2.0, rootless, single static binary, no daemon, claiming about 3.5ms container start against Docker's roughly 297ms and zero resident memory when idle (GitHub). It reads OCI images and docker-compose files but deliberately skips Docker's API, overlay networks and Swarm,...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
The project stores project memory as Markdown with YAML frontmatter in a knowledge/ directory, searches it with in-memory BM25, and exposes it through an embedded MCP server, sitting between ad-hoc CLAUDE.md files and black-box vector stores. It claims 80% token reduction via...
claude-mem (89.3K stars) targets seven harnesses. lean-ctx (3.5K stars, Rust, 76 MCP tools) uses 60-90% token reduction as its headline metric. Wienerdog surfaced on HN August 2 offering memory plus self-improving skills for both Claude Code and Codex. All three are harness-ne...
RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses is a weekly-rescored ranking that also ships an MCP server, llms.txt, and JSON, so agents themselves can query and recommend harnesses. It's two things at once: a useful landscape reference for picking a harness, and a clean example of the "...
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