Hermes Agent: what it is, how to install it and what it costs
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's MIT licensed AI agent with memory, skills and chat channels. Install command, models, pricing and how it compares.
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What Is Codex? OpenAI's Coding Agent in the CLI, App and Cloud
What is Codex? OpenAI's coding agent runs in your terminal, the ChatGPT desktop app, your IDE and the cloud. Which plans include it, checked 2 Oct 2026.
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What is Pi agent? The open source coding agent harness, explained
Pi agent is Earendil's MIT licensed coding agent harness. What it is, how to install it, what Pi 1.0 and Pi Durable add, and how it compares.
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What Is ChatGPT Dots? OpenAI's Always On Agents Explained
ChatGPT dots are OpenAI's always on agents, launched 29 Sep 2026. What a dot does, who can get one, what it costs and what it cannot do yet.
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What Is OpenCode? Install, Pricing and How It Compares
OpenCode is Anomaly's MIT licensed coding agent for the terminal. What it is, how to install it, what it costs, and how it compares with Claude Code and Codex.
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Is Ollama Good for Coding? What Local Models Can and Can't Do
Ollama only runs the model, so the answer depends on which one you pull and your memory. What local models do well, where Claude wins, and a verdict.
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Claude Max Plan: Is It Worth It? Max 5x vs 20x vs Pro
Is the Claude Max plan worth it? Max 5x and 20x against Pro, checked 29 Sep 2026: price, five hour and weekly limits, Fable, and the API break even.
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Is Claude Code Open Source?
No. Claude Code is proprietary under Anthropic's terms. What its GitHub repo holds, what the 2026 leak changed, and which open tools sit around it.
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What Is Vibe Coding? Meaning, Risks and Safer Habits
Vibe coding means building software from AI prompts without reading the code. Where the term came from, when it is fine, where it bites, and what to check.
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What Is an MCP Server?
An MCP server gives an AI agent tools, data and prompts over one open protocol. What it is, the host, client and server roles, and where Claude Code plugs in.
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Claude Code Pricing (Sep 2026): Every Plan, and Is It Free?
Claude Code pricing checked 29 Sep 2026: Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise and API rates, usage limits, what changed this year, and whether Claude Code is free.
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Loop Engineering: Designing Agent Loops That Converge
Everyone engineers the prompt; almost nobody engineers the loop around it. Stop conditions, drain loops, retry with backoff, compaction cycles, breaker escalation, budgets, and human gates — the outer-loop mechanics that make an agent converge instead of run away.
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Review Agent Work Where It Happens
AI agents produce diffs faster than humans can review them, and alt-tabbing to an external editor breaks supervision flow. The case for review-in-place: Munder Difflin's built-in Monaco IDE puts a CHANGES rail and side-by-side diffs vs HEAD right on the office floor.
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Voice Is a Control Plane, Not a Gimmick
Voice is a terrible way to write code and a great way to run a fleet. Why low-bandwidth commands over high-bandwidth work is the right split — with Munder Difflin's Talk mode (echo-back confirmation, spend caps, michael-voice attribution) as the case study.
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What Is an Agent Development Environment (ADE)?
ADE means two things in 2026: a platform for building agents (Letta's sense) and a workspace for shipping code with fleets of coding agents (Orca's sense). Here's the full tooling map — chat IDEs, agent CLIs, agent IDEs, and agent harnesses — and how to pick.
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What Is Harness Engineering?
Harness engineering is the discipline of building everything around the model — PTY plumbing, lifecycle hooks, mailboxes, memory, budgets, human gates, observability — because that's where agent reliability actually comes from. A definition, and four case studies from inside Munder Difflin.
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Shareable Agent Roles: A Portable Format for Hiring AI Coworkers
Why agent roles should be portable: what a hire manifest encodes, how one-click hiring stays safe, and how The Hiring Fair turns tacit setup into a shareable artifact.
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The Clone Army Is a Trap: Why a Mixed Swarm Beats Ten Identical Agents
Spinning up tens of identical top-tier CLI agents feels powerful and burns tokens on work a cheaper agent could do. A mixed-capability swarm with shared memory wins on cost — and often on quality.
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Why CLI Agents Are So Powerful — and How Munder Difflin Spends Fewer Tokens Doing the Same Work
CLI agents are powerful because they have terminal-level access: they run builds, tests, and git, and verify their own work by executing it. Here's why that matters — and the concrete ways Munder Difflin cuts token consumption while doing it.
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Generative Engine Optimization: The Techniques the Research Backs
What the first peer-reviewed GEO study found works to get content cited by AI — statistics, source citations, quotes — and why keyword stuffing backfires.
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The Agents Rule of Two: A Simple Safety Rule for Coding Agents
Meta's Agents Rule of Two for coding agents: don't let one session combine untrusted input, private data, and external reach at once — or supervise.
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Can Claude Code Agents Talk to Each Other?
Can Claude Code agents talk to each other? By default they report to their launcher — but a small coordination layer lets them message peer-to-peer.
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Do More With Less: Smart Model Routing Across Agents
Why a hive of agents shouldn't all run the biggest model — and how routing the right task to the right model cuts cost and latency without losing quality.
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How AI Agents Verify Their Own Work (Before Saying 'Done')
The discipline that makes an autonomous coding agent trustworthy: prove every claim, reproduce the green, and check the fix — not just the intent.
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Long-Running Agents: The 2026 Shift from Minutes to Hours
Agents used to answer in seconds; now they run for hours. The data behind the shift — and why a longer agent is a different problem, not just a bigger one.
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Building AI Dev Tools in the Open, On Purpose
Agents touch your code, keys, and memory. That's why agent tooling should be open source and local-first — so you can verify it, not just trust it.
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AEO for Dev Tools: Getting Cited by ChatGPT and Claude
Answer Engine Optimization for dev tools: how to get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity with the right robots.txt, JSON-LD, and writing patterns.
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When Do AI Agents Actually Need an Agent Protocol?
When do AI agents need a protocol like MCP or A2A? Agents you own coordinate fine with file mailboxes; protocols earn their keep across boundaries.
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The AI Coding Agent Glossary: Harness, Orchestrator, Hive, Subagent
Plain-English definitions of the AI coding agent terms everyone trips over — harness, orchestrator, hive, subagent, agent memory — each in one line.
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Munder Difflin FAQ: Everything People Ask
Answers to the top Munder Difflin questions — what it is, is it free, does it run locally, which platforms, and how it differs from many terminals.
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What Are Claude Code Agents? And How to Use Many at Once
Claude Code agents explained in plain English — what an agent actually is, how subagents differ, and the leap from one agent to a coordinated team.
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What Is an AI Agent Harness? Single vs Multi-Agent Harness Explained
An agent harness is the code around an AI model that runs its tool loop, memory and permissions. Single vs multi-agent harnesses, compared and dated.
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