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AI Digest August 2026
1 digest entries from August 2026, covering 01 Aug 2026.
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Agent Reliability Is Becoming a Systems Problem
Two practitioner releases argue that dependable agents depend on bounded tool interfaces and evaluations of the full harness, not model capability alone. The practical consequence is to test prompts, permissions, tool schemas, and graders together on real tasks.
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Source handle simonwillison. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/.simonwillisonsimonwillison.netStateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/Source handle simonwillison-2. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/.simonwillison-2simonwillison.netsmevals—a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnessesI've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models. The result is …
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/
2 sourceshttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/Source handle simonwillison-2. Links to https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/.simonwillison-2simonwillison.netsmevals—a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnessesI've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models. The result is …https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/smevals/