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AI Agent Skill Managers Are a Supply-Chain Surface Most of Them Don't Guard

AI Agent Skill Managers Are a Supply-Chain Surface Most of Them Don't Guard

Three open-source tools to manage AI agent skills, the SKILL.md packages that assistants like Claude Code and Codex read and run, each crossed 2,000 GitHub stars in months. But a skill is natural-language intent an agent runs with full file and shell access, which makes every manager a software supply-chain channel. Only one of the three scans skill files for malicious instructions before an agent sees them.

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Google Open-Sources a Knowledge Format and Wires It Into Its Catalog
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Google Open-Sources a Knowledge Format and Wires It Into Its Catalog

Google Cloud just published the Open Knowledge Format, a one-page spec that turns the context AI agents need into plain markdown files any text editor can open. It looks like a gift to the whole industry, vendor-neutral, no SDK, free to read and ship. But the same day Google shipped it, the company wired the format into the Knowledge Catalog it charges to run, and the spec quietly leaves the part Google actually sells out of scope. So who really benefits when a format is this open?

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar issue 9 reviews last30days-skill, HyperFrames, fff, OfficeCLI, and Pydantic's Monty as agent tooling moves past chat: community research scored by upvotes and Polymarket odds, deterministic HTML-to-MP4 video rendering, a frecency-ranked file index for MCP clients, a single binary that gives agents Word and Excel control, and a from-scratch Rust Python interpreter that runs LLM-written code in microseconds without a container. Stars, licenses, difficulty scores, and the risks inside ea

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Anthropic Turned Claude Code Into an Unattended Agent Runtime This Spring
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Anthropic Turned Claude Code Into an Unattended Agent Runtime This Spring

In one spring, Anthropic shipped versions 2.1.72 through 2.1.166 of Claude Code and changed what the tool is. A coding assistant that once asked permission before every edit can now run hundreds of agents unattended and push work into the cloud. The autonomy features get the demos. The quieter half, a policy layer of classifier gates and managed deny rules, decides whether an enterprise lets an agent loose in its repositories, and how much of the new power stays fenced off.

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Hermes Agent Installs in One Command. The Hard Part Is Deciding What It Can Touch.

Hermes Agent is not another chatbot wrapper. It is a server-side personal agent with memory, skills, tools, cron jobs, and chat channels. Here is how it works, what hardware it needs, where OpenClaw differs, and how to test it without over-permissioning it.

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Four GitHub Tools That Stop Claude, Codex, and Gemini From Shipping Bad Code

Four open-source tools fix four different failure modes in terminal AI. Superpowers teaches the agent how to work. Context7 feeds it current docs. Serena gives it IDE-grade code navigation. ccusage tells you what the other three cost. Here is how to install them and the commands that actually matter

The Anthropic Shutdown Confirmed Europe's Fear of Depending on US Tech
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The Anthropic Shutdown Confirmed Europe's Fear of Depending on US Tech

Washington used export-control law to switch off Anthropic's top AI models worldwide, cutting off allies and the company's own staff. For Europe it confirmed an uncomfortable fact about its dependence on US tech, from Anthropic to Google and AWS.

Washington forced Anthropic to switch off its two most powerful AI models worldwide, using export-control law built for weapons and chips to bar foreign nationals, including the company's own staff. For European governments the order was not a surprise but a confirmation that the cloud and AI their economies run on, from Anthropic to Google and Amazon, answers to one government. What that does to trust, and to the contracts coming up for renewal, is the question Brussels is now weighing.

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