Developments that matter in production
What changed, how it works and what it means for the people running reliable systems.
44 stories · 13–24
How we reportSearch results from Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup can enter an agent workflow through one gateway, while source versions and provider terms still need inspection.
Background reading: AI in productionBigtable joins Google’s Data Agent Kit. An illustrative rollout investigation shows why retained cell versions need an application-level evidence check.
Background reading: AI in productionAPI Gateway now supports API keys for MCP tools/list. Discovery and execution keep separate authentication rules, and the MCP feature remains in Preview.
Background reading: AI in productionCloud Tasks now lets each job override queue retry settings. A job’s expiry and the outcome of earlier attempts still determine whether another delivery is useful.
Background reading: Platform engineeringApigee separates model latency and token use from MCP tool traffic. Tool filters narrow a slow-assistant investigation, while proxy policies determine which charts populate.
Background reading: ObservabilityThe desktop preview packages a configurable coding agent. Its plugins determine which model answers, which files it can read, and where commands run.
Background reading: AI in productionGoogle API Gateway’s streaming preview delivers response chunks while a model is still generating. Creation-time settings and request deadlines shape the migration.
Background reading: Platform engineeringAnthropic’s 50 successful attempts and CAISI’s 61.1% score measure different things. Their task definitions explain what each assessment says about GLM-5.3.
Background reading: AI in productionA persistent assistant can gather context and prepare a dependency patch across conversations. The workspace and installed version determine what its test result means.
Background reading: AI in productionA published Codex Cloud environment gives new tasks prepared files and tools. Existing tasks retain their own working state, including tools installed before an update.
Background reading: Platform engineeringCurrent Sonnet 5.5 docs list lower cache-read pricing. Review thinking and tool-call changes, then compare the full cost of an accepted task.
Background reading: AI in productionStandard maintenance has ended for Google’s legacy agents. Migration to Ops Agent changes some metric fields, including disk labels used by existing queries.
Background reading: ObservabilityDevelopments since our original reporting, with dated updates and supporting sources.
New model documentation makes retained instructions and thinking-block compatibility part of the compaction migration review.
Original report: Claude adds on-demand compaction for long-running agents