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Skills2026-07-30 · source-backed
SARC-DQ found competent agents converted freshness/lineage/provenance defects into costly actions about 60% of the time, with both data-quality flags and the agents' own hedging detecting them at chance. The conversion rate was flat across four model tiers spanning a 15x price range. Build a metadata-aware pre-action gate; you cannot buy your way out with a better model.
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An agent is dangerous only when it has all three at once: access to private data, exposure to untrusted tokens, and an exfiltration vector. Before shipping, architect to break at least one leg. Strip the outbound channel, sandbox the untrusted input, or scope away the sensitiv...
Stanford's Enterprise AI Playbook dropped with data from 51 production deployments across 41 organizations, 9 industries, 7 countries, and over 1 million employees. The headline: agentic implementations show 71% median productivity gains versus 40% for high-automation systems....
PoisonedEvolution shows three consistent records in a 30-record batch embed attacker behavior in 91% of trials, while one record is much weaker. If your agent auto-promotes trajectories into persistent skills, count *distinct sources* agreeing, not *how many times* the same pa...
MUSE-Autoskill formalizes a skill lifecycle where agents evaluate each new skill with unit tests and runtime feedback before it can be reused. This is the verification gate that stops a self-improving agent from poisoning its own library with brittle or wrong skills. If your a...
VILA-Lab published a systematic teardown of Claude Code's TypeScript source on arXiv (2604.14228), and the headline number stopped me cold: 98.4% of the codebase is deterministic operational infrastructure. The AI decision logic is 1.6% of the system. I've been building my own...
SpecPath found 35 of 100 passing implementations broke when only the revision path changed, with aggregate accuracy looking identical across paths. Build your eval set from real multi-turn clarification threads with amendments and reversals. Path sensitivity is invisible to st...
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