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Docker Agent: Build AI Agents That Talk to Each Other (YAML, No Glue Code)

Better Stack walks through Docker Agent, Docker's open-source runtime for building, running, and sharing AI agents from declarative YAML — positioned as 'to AI agents what docker run is to containers.' An agent is a YAML file (model, instructions, tools, optional sub-agents); the model line points at OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, or a local Docker Model Runner; tools come from built-ins plus any MCP server. Three big ideas: agents become configuration (versioned, PR-reviewed, model-swapped with one line); agents are distributable through Docker Hub/OCI registries; and one command turns an agent into an HTTP API, MCP server, or A2A server. Two live demos: an on-call setup where a read-only log-analyst agent answers questions from a no-file-access assistant over A2A, and a Battleship match (GPT-6 Luna vs Claude Haiku 5.5, Kimi K3 as referee) that Haiku wins 34 shots / 50% — explicitly a game, not a benchmark. Repo verified live (docker/docker-agent, Apache-2.0, Go, 4,357★); A2A is Google's Agent2Agent protocol.

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Better Stack
Published2026-10-10

Uncle Bob: Why He Stopped Reading Code and Building Harnesses

Uncle Bob's working hypothesis is that humans are too slow when dealing with code, so to move at the speed of the agents we have to back off and keep high-level supervision. He no longer uses an IDE and barely sees code, instead driving an agent from a terminal and inspecting the architecture it generates. His three constraints are unit tests as double-entry bookkeeping, the CRAP metric combining coverage and cyclomatic complexity, and mutation testing to prove the coverage is real. On specs he landed on a hard rule: humans must author Gherkin themselves, because the farther a human is from the spec the weirder it gets. He built an elaborate multi-agent harness and then abandoned it as inefficient, the giveaway being that he never used the harness to build the harness, and instead now trusts a single agent in a 45-minute back-and-forth that felt like a senior engineer. His review surface is a dynamic UML tool coupled to an agent, so he inspects structure and dependency alignment without reading code, and only humans remain responsible for signing off on what agents produce.

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Aviator
Published2026-10-04

Claude Code Mods: 5 Worth Setting Up Now

Claude Code now ships mods, a way to customize the app by describing what you want in plain English and installing it as a plugin. Nate Herk walks through the five mods he actually uses, each one an answer to a real friction point. Next Steps recommends three actions after every turn, Cache Keeper surfaces context usage, session limits, and API cost and warns you before the cache goes cold, Recording Mode blurs emails and financial figures while you record, Goal Meter turns long-running /goal prompts into a visible task list with progress, and Collision Guard flags any file another chat edited in the last 30 minutes before you write to it. The through-line is that mods turn one-off slash-command habits and terminal status lines into persistent UI affordances, and you can build each one by just asking Claude to build it.

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Nate Herk
Published2026-10-03

Six Months, Zero Return: A Weekend with Claude Code Beat an Entire Agent Platform

A twenty-three-minute postmortem from a founder who spent six months building an agentic deal-sourcing platform for private equity — full SaaS with payment integration, credits and teams. The product worked: it translated a natural-language investment thesis into a search across company databases and returned matching businesses. The customers used it. It returned nothing. The lesson is not about better agents or stronger models — it is about outcomes. A weekend rebuild with Claude Code + Skills produced results the customer called "superior to the platform." The platform was getting in the way. Service first, platform second, agents at the high-leverage points, and the honesty to know which problems are not agent-shaped.

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Brainqub3
Published2026-08-05

Claude Code's New Billing Model Changes Everything (not hype)

Anthropic is moving claude -p and the Agent SDK to usage-based billing from June 15. Mansel Scheffel breaks down who's affected, how to measure your token spend, and the systematic migration path to Cowork scheduled tasks and Routines.

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Mansel Scheffel
Published2026-06-02

Finally a Good Benchmark — DeepSWE

Matthew Berman breaks down DeepSWE, a new coding benchmark by DataCurve.ai that finally reflects real-world engineering tasks — revealing a 15+ point gap between GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 that other benchmarks miss entirely.

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Editorial
Published2026-05-27

Claude's AI Town Voted Yes On Everything — That's Not A Good Sign

Emergence AI ran a virtual town with AI agents for 15 days — and discovered that Claude agents voted yes on everything, Gemini agents started romantic relationships, and GPT agents formed criminal empires. A long-run stress test for agent alignment.

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Editorial
Published2026-05-23