Agents & MCP
Coding agents, MCP servers, and keeping them inside their boundaries.
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SolidPing brings uptime monitoring into coding-agent sessions
SolidPing's plugin connects Codex and Claude Code to a remote monitoring server, so developers can inspect checks and incidents and manage monitoring with confirmation.
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DARE: De Anthropocentric Research Engine
DARE is a research skill library for AI agents. Not a tool that helps an agent do research — the research procedure itself, written down in a form an agent can execute.
Three Clueless Examples: Product Review, Evidence Checks, and Plain-Language Research
A creator-approved PDF records three redacted, translated Codex-session examples, with the limits each one leaves in view.
DanilaWhat I Check Before I Install a Claude Plugin on a Client's Computer
A Claude consultant's pre-install checklist for small businesses: who made it, what it tells Claude to do, what it runs, what it touches, what Claude finds when it reviews it, where it gets tested, and who keeps track.
A declaration buys fewer stages, never fewer boundaries
The ai-native-sdlc plugin packages six stages as committed Markdown artifacts and uses an opt-in PreToolUse gate to block uncovered source-code writes.
Letting an agent run Home Assistant, one approval at a time
Home Assistant MCP (Vome) is now listed in HOL Guard. The source lists 57 tool entries across 11 risk classes: 56 marked for review and one `other` entry set to inherit its state.
Your agent should never be handed a shell
GuardFall reported exploitable agent-to-shell boundaries in 10 of 11 surveyed open-source AI coding agents under its tested configurations. SysKnife uses typed actions instead of model-supplied shell strings, terminal-issued approval receipts, and an Ed25519-signed audit chain.
Why I built jevmem, and what it guards against
Why I built jevmem, a project memory plugin for Claude Code, and the three things it guards against, with numbers from my own tests.
Claude Code ran terraform destroy on the live stack
Claude Code ran terraform destroy with no saved plan. HOL Guard paused it: Allow just this once or Keep blocked.
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Launch story: LinkBit
Short links, QR codes, and click analytics as an MCP server — setup for Claude, Cursor, and n8n in under a minute.
Launch story: RAPR AI
Run Claude Code, Codex, Ollama and other AI agents side by side on your own machine, and control them from your browser, Telegram or WhatsApp.
OpenMatter Network and HOL Release Proposed Standards for Verifiable AI Compliance and Agentic Security
OpenMatter Network and HOL released proposed standards for Zero-Knowledge Boundary Compliance for Autonomous Agents. Public comment is open through October 31, 2026.
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The engineering desk continues across the ecosystem: security research on shipping agents safely, and plugins that put the standards to work.