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discordJun 18, 20262 min readCurated summary

How to Manage Your Discord Desktop Notifications: A Complete Guide

Discord offers fine-grained notification controls so users can manage alerts at the server, channel, sound, status, and desktop-system levels. Notifications can be limited to mentions, muted for specific channels or categories, or silenced entirely with Do Not Disturb. Individual sounds and desktop pop-ups can also be disabled without turning off every in-app alert. ## Types of Discord Notifications - Notifications may be triggered by: - Regular channel messages - Direct @mentions - @everyone and @here mentions - Mentions of roles the user belongs to - Replies to the user’s messages - Separate sounds may indicate: - Messages in the channel currently being viewed - Incoming voice or video calls - Someone launching an Activity - Soundboard effects ## Server, Channel, and Category Controls - Server settings are available by right-clicking a server and selecting **Notification Settings**. - Server-wide options include: - **All Messages** - **Only @mentions** - **Nothing** - Suppressing @everyone, @here, role mentions, and new event notifications - Muting the entire server - Individual channels can override the server default with their own notification setting. - Categories can also be muted, greying out and collapsing their channels. - These controls allow users to keep a server active while silencing noisy channels such as memes, off-topic, or announcements. ## Do Not Disturb - **Do Not Disturb** silences Discord notification sounds across the app. - It can be enabled from the avatar status menu and configured for a specific duration. - Online is the normal status, while Idle and Invisible mainly affect how the user appears to others. - DND syncs between desktop and mobile, although mobile push notifications may still appear. ## Individual Notification Sounds - Under **User Settings > Notifications > Sounds**, users can toggle many sounds independently. - Available controls cover messages, mentions, mute and deafen actions, call rings, voice-channel joins and leaves, and more. - Users may want to disable message sounds while keeping important alerts such as incoming calls enabled. - Soundboard configuration is handled separately. ## Desktop Notification Pop-ups - **User Settings > Notifications > Enable Desktop Notifications** controls system pop-ups on Windows, macOS, and Linux. - Disabling this option removes desktop pop-ups but does not stop sounds played within Discord. - Users who want complete silence should combine desktop notification controls with server, channel, DND, or sound settings. The most effective setup is to use server and channel settings for routine filtering, individual sound toggles for prioritizing important events, and DND when uninterrupted focus is needed.

Discord Linux Mobile App Macos+4

githubJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing

GitHub is improving Copilot’s efficiency by optimizing both how context is handled and which model performs each task. Prompt caching and deferred tool loading reduce repeated overhead in long agentic sessions, while Auto selects models based on task complexity and real-time system conditions. The goal is to preserve quality while using tokens, compute, and cost more intelligently. ## Prompt Caching and Deferred Tools - Copilot sessions repeatedly include instructions, repository context, conversation history, tool definitions, and task state. - Prompt caching allows repeated prompt prefixes to reuse model state instead of being recomputed on every request. - Tool search loads tool definitions only when needed, rather than placing every full schema into context on every turn. - This is especially valuable for sessions involving MCP tools, terminal commands, file operations, workspace search, and other actions. - The approach reduces fixed per-turn overhead while preserving access to a broad toolset. ## Auto Model Selection - Copilot Auto chooses a model based on the task rather than requiring developers to select one manually. - Quick explanations, focused edits, and complex multi-file changes often benefit from different levels of reasoning. - Evaluations found that no single model consistently performs best across all tasks. - Auto uses more efficient models when they can achieve comparable results and selects stronger reasoning models when the task demands them. - The objective is not simply lower cost, but matching model capability to the work. ## How Auto Routes Tasks Auto combines two signals: - **Real-time model health** - Considers availability, utilization, response speed, error rates, and cost. - Avoids selecting a model that is technically capable but currently overloaded or unreliable. - **Task-aware routing with HyDRA** - Evaluates reasoning depth, code complexity, debugging difficulty, and tool-orchestration requirements. - Identifies models capable of meeting the task’s quality threshold, then chooses the best fit among them. - The system can be tuned toward maximum quality or greater cost savings. ## Cache-Aware Routing - Switching models during every turn can reduce efficiency by invalidating cached prompt prefixes. - Auto therefore keeps the same model during a conversation so the cache can continue building. - It changes models at natural cache boundaries: - The first turn, when no cache exists yet. - After context compaction, when older turns are summarized and the prompt prefix resets. ## Multilingual Routing - Copilot’s routing system was trained on conversations spanning 16 language families, including CJK and European languages. - Evaluations covered production VS Code chat data across 19 languages. - Routing accuracy remained within four points of the English baseline across language groups. - No statistically significant quality gap was observed between the language groups. Copilot’s efficiency strategy combines smarter context management with adaptive model selection. Caching and on-demand tools reduce repeated work, while cache-aware Auto routing chooses an appropriate model without unnecessarily sacrificing quality or session efficiency.

AI Agents Model Context Protocol Github Copilot Visual Studio Code+3

cloudflareJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Bringing more agent harnesses to Cloudflare, starting with Flue

Cloudflare argues that production AI agents need more than an agent harness: they require platform primitives for durable state, execution, storage, and secure compute. It presents a three-layer stack—framework, harness, and runtime—and introduces Flue as the first framework built on the Cloudflare Agents SDK. Flue uses a declarative approach based on Pi, while Cloudflare supplies the infrastructure needed to resume interrupted work and run agents reliably at scale. ## The Three-Layer Agent Stack - **Framework — Flue** - Provides project structure, conventions, integrations, CLI commands, and developer experience. - **Harness — Pi or Project Think** - Runs the agentic loop: calls tools, processes results, manages context, and continues until a task is complete. - **Runtime/platform — Cloudflare Agents SDK** - Supplies compute, state, storage, durable execution, sandboxing, and workflow primitives. - Cloudflare’s goal is to make these runtime capabilities available to any harness or framework. ## Flue’s Declarative Agent Model - Flue 1.0 Beta is built on the Pi harness, which also powers OpenClaw. - Developers describe what an agent knows rather than explicitly scripting its orchestration. - An agent is defined through its: - Model - Skills - Sandbox - Instructions - This allows relatively compact agents to autonomously handle tasks such as reproducing and diagnosing bug reports. ## Flue’s Developer Experience - **Integrated channels** - Preconfigured integrations let agents work in Slack, GitHub, Linear, and Discord. - Channels handle event verification and dispatch boilerplate. - **Headless and UI-ready operation** - Agents can run as background processes. - `@flue/react` provides hooks for streaming agent state, tool execution, and messages into frontend applications. - **Ecosystem integrations** - Commands such as `flue add channel slack` generate Markdown blueprints that coding agents can modify and integrate into a project. ## Durable Execution with Durable Streams - Production agents face host crashes, LLM API timeouts, restarts, and interrupted tool calls. - Flue records prompts, tool responses, model decisions, and other execution events in an append-only log. - This durable event history prevents in-memory state from being lost. - If a process fails, another process can replay the log and resume from the exact point of interruption. ## Deployment Across Clouds - On Node.js, Flue agents run as long-lived processes on VMs, containers, GitHub Actions, or existing servers. - On Cloudflare, each agent runs in its own Durable Object. - This provides: - Isolated storage and compute - Automatic scaling - No need to provision servers or manage sticky sessions - Protection from noisy neighbors - Cloudflare deployments use Agents SDK features including `runFiber()`, `stash()`, and `onFiberRecovered()` for durable execution. - Sandboxed code execution uses `@cloudflare/codemode` and `@cloudflare/shell` with a durable workspace. ## Requirements for Production Agent Harnesses - An agent turn is a multi-step process that may involve token streaming, tool calls, human approval, or delegated subagents. - These operations can last seconds or minutes and may fail at any point. - Persisting only conversation history is insufficient because it does not preserve active execution state, pending tool calls, or the agent’s current position. - Cloudflare’s fiber-based primitives provide checkpointing so interrupted agent turns can recover instead of leaving users with stalled requests. Cloudflare’s recommendation is to treat the framework, harness, and runtime as separate but coordinated layers. Frameworks like Flue make agents easy to build, while the Agents SDK supplies the durable execution and infrastructure primitives required to operate them reliably in production.

Durable Objects Cloudflare Agents Sdk Durable Execution Flue+3

awsJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026 | Amazon Web Services

AWS Summit New York 2026 focused on making AI agents more capable, secure, autonomous, and easier to operate in production. Announcements spanned Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, security automation, developer tooling, workplace agents, and S3 data management. The overall direction is toward agents that can access governed knowledge, act independently, and continuously improve while remaining subject to enterprise controls. ## Building More Capable Agents - **Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base** simplifies enterprise RAG with native data connectors, Smart Parsing for multi-format data, and an Agentic Retriever for complex, multi-step queries. - **Web Search for Bedrock AgentCore** provides managed, current, cited web knowledge while keeping data within the customer’s secured AWS environment. - **Bedrock AgentCore harness** is now generally available, allowing developers to define an agent’s model, tools, skills, and instructions through configuration rather than custom orchestration loops. - **AWS Context**, coming soon, will map relationships across organizational data into a knowledge graph. Agents will be able to use governed relationships, business rules, and domain knowledge at runtime. - **AWS WAF Bot Control** lets publishers and content owners price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots accessing content and APIs, with scoped access enforced at the edge. ## Securing Agents and Applications - **AWS Continuum**, available in gated preview, aggregates vulnerability findings, ranks them by business impact, verifies exploitability, and routes fixes through existing development processes. - **AWS Security Agent**, now part of Continuum, adds: - Threat modeling based on the STRIDE framework - Pull-request code scanning and remediation across major Git platforms - IDE integrations through Kiro, Claude Code, and MCP - These tools are intended to let developers perform security reviews and address vulnerabilities without leaving their normal workflows. ## AI-Assisted Software Development - **Kiro for iOS**, in gated preview, lets developers start, monitor, steer, and approve Kiro sessions from a phone, including reviewing diffs and approving changes without keeping a laptop running. - **AWS DevOps Agent** adds release readiness reviews and autonomous release testing. It evaluates changes against natural-language standards and tests them in production-like environments. - **AWS Transform continuous modernization**, in preview, scans repositories against configurable technical-debt baselines and can autonomously generate remediation pull requests. ## Autonomous Workplace Agents - New **Amazon Quick autonomous agents** can work in the background with defined expertise, tone, permissions, and tools. - Example use cases include: - A finance agent processing incoming orders - A sales agent analyzing CRM, email, and Slack activity - Agents drafting follow-ups, identifying risks, and recommending next steps - A new **activity feed** combines email, messaging, calendars, and tasks into a prioritized view that adapts to the user’s communication and work patterns. ## Richer Metadata for Amazon S3 - **S3 annotations** allow up to 1 GB of mutable, queryable context to be attached directly to an object. - The feature targets AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover and interpret data without maintaining separate metadata systems. AWS’s announcements point toward an agent ecosystem that combines managed knowledge retrieval, web access, security automation, autonomous development workflows, and persistent workplace assistance. Organizations adopting these capabilities should pair autonomy with strong governance, scoped permissions, and continuous validation in production.

AI Agents Amazon Bedrock RAG Amazon S3+4

awsJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is a managed service for building enterprise generative AI applications over proprietary data. It abstracts storage, retrieval, embeddings, reranking, and model selection while adding native connectors, automated parsing, and agentic retrieval. The result is a faster way to create scalable, accurate RAG-based agents without maintaining the underlying infrastructure. ## Enterprise Knowledge Base Challenges - Enterprise data is distributed across systems with different formats, permissions, and access controls. - RAG accuracy requires ongoing experimentation with parsing, chunking, embedding models, and retrieval behavior. - Organizations must support either massive knowledge bases containing millions of documents or thousands of smaller ones while controlling cost and enforcing security. - These infrastructure tasks divert developers from building application functionality. ## Managed RAG Infrastructure - Managed Knowledge Base combines storage, retrieval, embeddings, reranking, and foundation model selection into one managed primitive. - The service automatically selects and manages default embedding, reranking, and foundation models. - It can scale end-to-end RAG pipelines with only a few lines of code. - Through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, it is available as a pre-built target with automatically generated role-based permissions, observability, and evaluation metrics. ## Native Data Connectors - Six built-in connectors ingest enterprise content and permissions directly from: - Amazon S3 - SharePoint - Confluence - Web Crawler - Google Drive - OneDrive - Connectors eliminate the need to build and maintain application-specific ingestion logic. - IAM roles are created automatically, with the option to customize permissions. ## Smart Parsing Smart Parsing automatically chooses ingestion and parsing techniques based on the source and content type. - Connector-specific models preserve important structure: - Web Crawler retains HTML structure, embedded images, and tables. - SharePoint preserves document hierarchies and relationships. - Multimodal processing detects document content types, identifies bounding boxes, and uses foundation models for extraction and captions. - Optimized chunking uses document structure and content type to balance retrieval quality and performance. - Developers can rely on defaults or customize chunking strategies for advanced use cases. ## Agentic Retriever Agentic Retriever is designed for complex questions requiring multi-step reasoning and retrieval. - It decomposes a query into a sequence of subquestions. - It performs multihop retrieval within one knowledge base or across multiple knowledge bases. - It evaluates intermediate results and stops once sufficient relevant passages have been found. - For example, it can connect a team’s cloud budget with an expense policy governing annual prepayments—something a single retrieval step might miss. - Retrieved context can then support more accurate, grounded responses from enterprise agents. ## Getting Started - Create a Managed Knowledge Base from the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or Amazon Bedrock console. - Choose **Create Managed KB** and select **Unstructured Vector Store KB**. - Select a supported data connector and accept the optimized defaults. - After synchronization, connect the knowledge base to an agent or expose it as a tool for a foundation model. Managed Knowledge Base is best suited to teams that want production-ready enterprise RAG without assembling and operating every component themselves, while retaining customization options for specialized accuracy or governance requirements.

AI Agents Generative AI Amazon Bedrock RAG+2

awsJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Ground your AI agents in current, accurate web knowledge | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search is now generally available, giving AI agents access to current, cited web information without sending prompts or queries outside a customer’s AWS environment. Built into AgentCore Gateway through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it combines Amazon’s web index with structured knowledge graph data to provide relevant snippets, URLs, titles, dates, and verified facts. The service lets developers ground agent responses in up-to-date information without building or managing search infrastructure themselves. ## How Web Search Works - Agents submit natural-language queries through an AgentCore Gateway. - The tool returns: - Relevant web snippets - Source URLs - Page titles - Publication dates - Results are powered by: - Amazon’s web search index - Amazon Knowledge Graph data - The combination of web results and structured facts is intended to improve relevance and accuracy over conventional search alone. - Retrieved information can support both grounded responses and follow-up agent actions. ## Secure, Managed Agent Integration - Web Search is a fully managed connector target for Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. - Customer prompts and retrieval queries remain within the AWS environment rather than being sent to external search API providers. - Developers avoid implementing search integrations and operating related infrastructure. - The service supports enterprise governance requirements and secured data workflows. ## Getting Started - Create or open a Bedrock AgentCore Gateway in the AWS console. - Select: - **MCP** as the target protocol - **Connectors** as the target type - **Web Search** as the preconfigured target - After the Gateway URL is created, interact with the tool using: - API calls - AWS CLI - MCP Python SDK - Strands MCP Client - MCP Inspector - MCP Inspector can be used to connect to the Gateway, enter a query, and run the Web Search tool for testing and debugging. - Web Search can also be added to an existing Gateway. ## Early Customer Use Cases - **Benchling** uses Web Search to combine institutional scientific data with published literature, helping researchers generate more complete answers and hypotheses in a governed environment. - **Gen Digital** uses the tool in Norton Revamp to create current online reputation content based on real-world developments. - Customers highlighted the value of current information, AWS-native security, and keeping search queries within their trusted environment. ## Availability and Pricing - Web Search is generally available in **US East (N. Virginia)**. - It is offered at no additional cost initially. - Customers pay applicable Gateway data transfer charges. - New AWS customers may receive up to $200 in Free Tier credits. Developers can try Web Search through the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore console and consult the Gateway documentation for implementation details.

AI Agents Model Context Protocol Amazon Bedrock Agentcore Knowledge Graph+2

awsJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) | Amazon Web Services

AWS is previewing AWS Transform – continuous modernization, a capability designed to continuously detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt across thousands of repositories. It replaces fragmented, manual tooling with configurable analysis, automated pull requests, and current compliance visibility. The goal is to help engineering and platform teams keep codebases modern as dependencies, frameworks, runtimes, and security requirements evolve. ## Continuous Technical Debt Analysis - Scans connected repositories against configurable organizational baselines. - Produces findings within hours, including: - End-of-life dependencies - Deprecated frameworks - Security and code-quality issues - Organization-specific technical debt patterns - Teams can define custom policies for approved libraries, internal standards, deprecated components, or preferred coding patterns. - Findings provide a current view of which repositories are behind baseline, by how much, and which files or components are affected. - This reduces reliance on manual status reports and periodic compliance checks. ## Autonomous Remediation - AWS Transform can automatically generate pull requests for affected repositories. - Built-in transformations support common tasks such as: - Java version upgrades - SDK migrations - Library updates - Custom transformations can be created for organization-specific modernization needs. - Teams retain control by reviewing and merging the generated pull requests or applying their own fixes. - Continuous analysis verifies when repositories return to compliance without requiring manual confirmation. ## Integrated Security Remediation - Integration with AWS Security Agent brings source-code security vulnerabilities into the same workflow. - Security findings appear alongside other technical debt in a prioritized list. - Remediation is delivered through pull requests rather than separate, disconnected security processes. ## Dashboard and Remediation Campaigns - The AWS Transform web application provides portfolio-level visibility across repositories. - Users can view finding severity, affected files, categories, repositories, and available remediation options. - Remediation campaigns track: - Pull requests created - Pull requests merged - Repositories restored to compliance - AWS Transform supports repositories connected from GitHub and local environments. ## Continuous Mode and Campaign Mode - **Continuous mode** handles recurring maintenance: - Dependency upgrades - Security patches - Runtime updates - Coding-standard enforcement - **Campaign mode** is intended for larger, project-based changes, such as migrating frameworks or upgrading a major runtime across hundreds of applications. - AWS Transform custom remains the flexible option for substantial modernization projects, while continuous modernization focuses on high-volume, ongoing maintenance. AWS Transform – continuous modernization is available in preview through the AWS Transform web application, AWS Transform Kiro Power, MCP, and skills for coding-agent integration. It is most useful for organizations that need automated, organization-wide visibility and pull-request-based remediation for continuously accumulating technical debt.

Model Context Protocol Java Aws Lambda Pull Requests+4

awsJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview) | Amazon Web Services

AWS DevOps Agent’s new preview release-management features extend its role from post-deployment incident response to pre-production review and testing. It evaluates code changes against production requirements, organizational standards, dependency risks, and access-control practices, then performs targeted tests in isolated or production-like environments. The goal is to help teams safely handle the growing volume of AI-generated code without sacrificing review quality or delivery speed. ## Release Readiness Reviews - Reviews changes for: - Production and dependency risks - Cross-repository impacts - AWS access-control changes and Well-Architected best practices - Compliance with organization-specific standards - Teams can provide standards in plain English, such as: - Encryption and network-access rules - Logging and observability requirements - Sensitive-data classification practices - Without custom instructions, the agent applies general best practices. - It runs lightweight user-journey tests in an AWS-managed isolated environment to confirm that the software builds, runs, and passes basic functional checks. - Findings are available in: - The AWS DevOps Agent console - GitHub or GitLab pull-request comments - IDE workflows through the Kiro power or Claude Code plugin ## Autonomous Release Testing - Generates test plans based on the specific code change rather than relying only on static test suites. - Tests web and API applications in customer-provisioned, production-like environments before merging. - Covers: - Functional correctness - Behavioral regressions - Integration scenarios - Produces structured artifacts for every run, including metrics, logs, traces, and execution summaries. ## Configuring and Running Reviews - At least one GitHub or GitLab repository must be connected to an AWS DevOps Agent Space. - The agent indexes connected code and builds a knowledge graph of cloud and cross-repository dependencies. - Reviews can be triggered by: - Submitting a pull request - Starting an on-demand chat request, such as “Perform a production risk analysis on my repository branch” - The target can be specified using a branch name, pull-request number, or commit SHA. - Reviews can also be initiated from supported development environments. ## Reviewing Results - The **Changes** section lists review executions and supports filtering by category or status. - The **Timeline** records the agent’s tools, consulted dependencies, observations, and timestamped reasoning steps. - The **Report** includes: - Recommended action: **BLOCK**, **Proceed with Caution**, or **Safe to Release** - Number of critical issues - Commit revision and changed-file count - Evidence supporting the recommendation - Severity-ranked findings - Actionable remediation steps - A file-by-file summary of modifications - Developers can ask follow-up questions about affected downstream consumers, impacted files and line numbers, and recommended fixes. AWS DevOps Agent’s preview release-management capabilities provide an automated layer of change analysis and targeted testing before production. Teams should configure organization-specific instructions, connect their repositories, and use the generated reports and test artifacts as an additional safety gate for AI-assisted development.

Observability CI/CD Gitlab Github+4

awsJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

AWS Security Agent adds threat modeling, Kiro power and Claude Code plugin, and more | Amazon Web Services

AWS Security Agent, now part of AWS Continuum, is expanding into a unified security platform spanning design, development, and deployment. New capabilities include threat modeling, deeper pull-request and repository reviews, compliance validation, and integrations with Kiro, Claude Code, and other AI IDEs through MCP. AWS’s central promise is to find vulnerabilities, verify exploitability, and provide actionable fixes without interrupting developers’ workflows. ## Enhanced Code Reviews - Supports GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, including SaaS and self-hosted installations. - Integrates with Confluence so reviews can use existing technical and security documentation as context. - Performs reasoning-based analysis of pull requests and entire repositories, identifying vulnerabilities beyond pattern matching. - Checks code against organizational security requirements and common security risks. - Validates findings in simulated environments to demonstrate proof of exploitability. - Provides remediation guidance and fix commits directly in the repository workflow. - Supports pull-request scanning, remediation, security requirement packs, and simulated validation. ## Compliance and Design Reviews - Managed compliance packs include: - AWS WAF - NIST CSF - PCI DSS - AWS best practices - Organizations can import their own security requirements from internal documents or Confluence. - Findings are mapped to the organization’s compliance posture, helping teams maintain audit readiness throughout development. ## Threat Modeling - Generates threat models from design documents or source-code repositories. - Builds an application context model covering: - Architecture - Data flows - Trust boundaries - Application components - Identifies likely threat actors, attack vectors, and weaknesses. - Uses the STRIDE framework to classify threats. - Prioritizes risks and recommends mitigations. - Threat models can be generated from the Security Agent console or through supported development tools. ## Kiro, Claude Code, and MCP Integrations - A Kiro power is available, with a Claude Code plugin coming soon. - An open MCP integration enables use from Kiro, Claude Code, or other AI-powered IDEs. - Developers can trigger scans, threat models, and remediation directly from their IDE or CLI. - Kiro commands include: - `Set up AWS Security Agent` - `Run a full security scan on this repo` - `help me remediate my findings` - `Build a threat model for this application` - Findings can be downloaded into the local workspace, prioritized, and used to start bug-fix specification sessions. - Generated threat models are saved at `.security-agent/threat_model.md`. - A Kiro agent hook can automatically evaluate whether a code-review scan should run after an agent turn. ## Lifecycle Coverage and Availability - Design-time security: design reviews and threat modeling, both in preview. - Development-time security: repository and pull-request code reviews, in preview. - Deployment-time security: on-demand penetration testing, generally available. - The features are available in supported AWS commercial Regions, with regional availability and pricing listed in AWS documentation. AWS Security Agent is positioned as a continuous security layer across the software lifecycle. Teams interested in automated, context-aware security analysis can try it through the Security Agent console, while developers can use the IDE and MCP integrations to keep scanning and remediation within their existing workflows.

Model Context Protocol Code Review Claude Code Threat Modeling+3

cloudflareJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

Introducing the Cloudflare One stack- agent-powered deployment

Cloudflare’s One stack is a pair of agent skills designed to help organizations evaluate, migrate to, deploy, and operate Cloudflare One Zero Trust environments. It combines expert-curated guidance, migration logic, decision trees, and API tooling so agents can understand existing networks, recommend architectures, and safely implement changes. The goal is to reduce migrations that traditionally take months to a more guided and automated process. ## The Challenge of Zero Trust Migration - Teams must first understand their existing environment, including: - Applications and connectivity requirements - Authentication and authorization policies - Traffic flows - Assumptions embedded in current security and routing rules - Agents can automate many security workflows, but lack organization-specific knowledge about network topology and vendor configurations. - Cloudflare’s stack supplies the structured context and prescriptive guidance needed for agents to work more effectively with security infrastructure. ## What the Cloudflare One Stack Provides - The stack consists of two lightweight skill files: - `cloudflare-one` for general Cloudflare One planning, deployment, management, and troubleshooting - `cloudflare-one-migration` for translating and migrating from legacy SASE vendors - It incorporates knowledge gathered from Cloudflare employees with extensive customer deployment experience. - When combined with Cloudflare’s code mode MCP server, agents receive a typed interface to the Cloudflare API. - Agents can inspect live accounts and make changes through Cloudflare-recommended workflows rather than arbitrary API calls. ## Covered Cloudflare One Capabilities - VPN replacement and remote access through Cloudflare Access - User, device, network, and data security through Cloudflare Gateway - Connectivity using Cloudflare Tunnel, Mesh, and WAN - Migration from vendors such as Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks - Network diagram interpretation and generation - Translation of concepts between competing SASE platforms - Troubleshooting and operations using Digital Experience Monitoring and automated rule recommendations ## Guided Deployment and Migration - For VPN replacement, the agent can: - Inventory existing VPN applications - Determine the required connectivity model - Map applications to Access, Tunnel, or Mesh - Recommend a deployment sequence that reduces cutover disruption - Produce a configuration summary for human review - For Zscaler Private Access migrations, the agent can: - Convert application definitions into Cloudflare Access applications - Translate user groups and policies - Create equivalent resources through the Cloudflare API - Summarize completed work and identify items needing manual review - The migration logic is based on Cloudflare’s Descaler and Deskope programs, which have migrated enterprise customers from Zscaler and Netskope in hours rather than months. ## Operations and Troubleshooting - The stack can recommend security rules based on live account traffic. - It can automatically migrate Zscaler Private Access applications into self-hosted Cloudflare Access applications. - Agents can investigate anomalies in secure web gateway HTTP logs and create rules to address user issues. - The Digital Experience Monitoring toolkit can report on user stability and help improve latency in important scenarios. Cloudflare positions the One stack as a way to make Zero Trust deployment more accessible and repeatable. Organizations can use the skills with their existing agents, add internal context, and combine them with API tooling—but should still review generated plans and configurations before applying changes.

Model Context Protocol Zero Trust Sase Cloudflare Access+4

naverJun 17, 20261 min readCurated summary

From Tool to Colleague — An Autonomous Growth Framework for AI Agents

The provided text contains only NAVER D2 site navigation and copyright information, not a substantive technology blog post. It does not present a technical topic, argument, implementation details, or conclusion. ## Site Navigation - Hello world - D2 News - About D2 - NAVER Developers - DEVIEW - OpenSource - D2 STARTUP FACTORY ## Copyright - Copyright © NAVER Corp. All Rights Reserved. No technical summary or practical recommendation can be made from the supplied content.

Open Source Software Development Technology

lineJun 17, 20264 min readCurated summary

ID-JAG The Hard Way: Learning AI Agent Security Through Failure, Hands-On

ID-JAG provides a structured way for AI agents to access protected APIs on behalf of users without granting them permanent, broad permissions. The hands-on environment demonstrates how authentication, enterprise authorization policies, delegation, and token exchange work together across Keycloak, Athenz, MCP, and resource servers. Its central conclusion is that AI-agent security requires explicit delegation boundaries and centralized policy enforcement, not just user authentication at the entry point. ## Why AI Agents Need a Different Authorization Model - AI agents continuously call internal APIs, SaaS tools, databases, and other services. - Requesting user consent for every automated action would create an unusable experience. - Granting agents permanent, broad access increases: - Blast radius during failures or compromise - Difficulty assigning responsibility - Exposure to prompt injection and shadow AI risks - The key question becomes whether an agent is authorized to access a specific resource, for a specific user, with a specific scope at a specific time. ## ID-JAG and Its Practical Role - ID-JAG is an emerging OAuth profile discussed by the IETF OAuth Working Group. - It combines: - OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693) - JWT Profile for OAuth 2.0 Authorization Grants (RFC 7523) - It models delegated, cross-domain API access using explicit authorization grants. - The hands-on explores questions that architecture diagrams often leave unanswered: - What token payloads are issued? - Why should an ID token not be exchanged directly for an access token? - Where are enterprise policies evaluated? - How does an agent prove it is acting for a user? - How is trust established between the identity provider and authorization server? ## Separating Authentication from Enterprise Authorization - Keycloak acts as the upstream identity provider: - Authenticates the user - Issues the original identity assertion - Athenz, through `KeycloakTokenExchangePlugin`, acts as: - The authorization server - The ID-JAG issuer - The policy decision point (PDP) - The central resource authorization authority - Athenz validates the Keycloak assertion’s: - Issuer - Signature - Audience - Subject - Client binding - Enterprise policy requirements - Resource authorization servers trust only the Athenz-issued ID-JAG, rather than accepting Keycloak tokens directly. - Centralizing delegation policies in Athenz reduces duplicated or conflicting rules across identity providers, SaaS vendors, and applications. ## End-to-End Request Flow - The user logs in through Keycloak. - The user gives the AI agent a task through a prompt. - The agent requests an ID-JAG from Athenz. - Athenz evaluates enterprise policies and determines whether the delegation is allowed. - The agent requests an access token from Athenz. - The agent calls the protected MCP server with the issued token. - The MCP server exchanges the token with the authorization server. - The MCP server uses the exchanged token to call the final resource server. - The agent therefore operates within a policy-defined boundary instead of holding a long-lived master credential. ## Learning Through Deliberate Failures The tutorial emphasizes failure paths to show where each security control applies. - Calling a protected API without a token produces `401 Unauthorized`. - Defining an enterprise role without adding membership causes token exchange to fail. - Omitting the agent’s required delegation permission breaks the delegation chain. - These failures reveal whether the problem lies in authentication, grant validation, agent delegation, enterprise policy, or resource-token validation. ## Why ID Tokens Should Not Be Used Directly - An ID token proves that a user authenticated successfully to a client. - An authorization grant is an artifact submitted to request access to a particular resource and scope. - Directly exchanging an ID token can implicitly treat login evidence as permission to access resources. - Using an explicit ID-JAG grant creates clearer boundaries between: - Authentication failure - Grant validation failure - Delegation denial - Enterprise policy rejection - Resource authorization failure - ID-JAG is not technically required for the small local demo, but it makes authorization boundaries and audit paths much clearer. ## Hands-On Environment - The tutorial is available in `athenz-community/id-jag-the-hard-way`. - It guides users through a deliberate “fail, diagnose, and fix” workflow. - Users can later remove an agent’s delegation permission in the Athenz UI and observe exactly where execution is blocked. - This experimentation demonstrates the value of centralized policy control more effectively than a successful request alone. AI-agent ecosystems need more than front-door authentication. A practical deployment should use short-lived, explicitly scoped delegation, centralized enterprise policy evaluation, and observable token-exchange boundaries such as those demonstrated by ID-JAG.

AI Agents Model Context Protocol Jwt Authorization+4

gitlabJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

GitLab named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevSecOps Platforms

GitLab says Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for DevSecOps Platforms for the fourth consecutive year. The company argues that AI agents have accelerated coding but shifted bottlenecks to pipelines, security, deployments, governance, and costs. GitLab positions its unified platform as the control layer that turns agent-generated code into secure, compliant, production-ready software. ## AI Requires a Control Layer - Enterprises increasingly use multiple coding agents, but often lack centralized governance over: - Which agents can run - What data they can access - Which actions they can take - How their activity is audited - GitLab combines source control, CI/CD, security, deployment, policies, and planning in one platform. - Changes made by developers or agents can be evaluated against existing code, pipelines, and organizational policies before reaching production. ## Enterprise-Scale DevSecOps - GitLab highlights customer examples: - Ericsson reportedly cut deployment time in half. - Southwest uses GitLab for mission-critical airline operations. - Barclays and other regulated organizations use it while maintaining security and compliance requirements. - The platform supports multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant SaaS, self-managed, and air-gapped environments. - Customers can use self-hosted AI models and integrate existing tools and AI services while maintaining a unified governance boundary. ## Reliability and Availability - Gartner recognized GitLab’s strengthened service-level agreements. - GitLab offers Ultimate customers on GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated a 99.9% monthly availability commitment. - Eligible customers can receive service credits when availability falls below that threshold. ## New Capabilities for Speed and Governance GitLab announced five innovations intended to coordinate developers, agents, and software delivery: - **Next-generation source code management:** Claimed testing showed up to 50× faster performance and up to 1,000× less network data transfer. - **GitLab Orbit:** A context graph connecting code, work items, pipelines, deployments, and production signals. With Claude Code, GitLab reports tasks running up to 11× faster, using up to 4.5× fewer tokens and producing up to 45× fewer hallucinations. - **Security and governance agents:** Designed to address security and compliance gaps as agent usage expands. - **Agentic triggers:** Automate handoffs between developers and agents without requiring manual coordination. - **GitLab Flex agreements:** Allow customers to adjust spending across GitLab products and capabilities without changing contracts. GitLab’s central recommendation is to standardize development and AI-assisted delivery on one platform, context graph, and governance boundary. The Gartner recognition supports that positioning, although Gartner notes that its Magic Quadrant reflects analyst opinions and should not be interpreted as an endorsement or a recommendation to select the highest-rated vendor.

AI CI/CD Gitlab DevSecOps+4

tossJun 17, 20263 min readCurated summary

How AI Has Changed the Product Design Process

Toss redesigned its customer-service chatbot after finding that 60% of users abandoned the existing menu-based experience. Instead of forcing customers to identify the correct category, the team used AI to interpret natural-language requests and connect users directly to solutions. The project’s key insight was to prototype and validate experiences early, then improve the system through reusable rules rather than endlessly editing individual scenarios. ## Replacing Menu Navigation with Natural Language - The customer center serves roughly 600,000 visitors monthly, including about 170,000 chat users. - Users often know their problem—such as a failed payment or mistaken transfer—but not how Toss categorizes it. - The team therefore aimed to build a chatbot that understood intent and guided users directly to the appropriate resolution. ## Generating Scenario Drafts from Real 상담 Data - AI created initial scenarios for the 20 most common customer-service issues. - Personal information was removed and data was anonymized or pseudonymized before use. - Instead of relying primarily on policy documents, the team trained the AI on real consultation data. - This revealed: - The language customers actually use - The questions agents ask to narrow down causes - The order in which problems are diagnosed and resolved - Ways to explain complex policies in understandable language - As a result, the chatbot behaved more like a human 상담사 than a system that simply listed policies. ## Validating Many Situations with a Scenario Hub - A single request can hide dozens of possible conditions. For example, membership cancellation may depend on whether: - The monthly fee was already paid - Benefits were used - Cancellation was already scheduled - The team built a scenario hub where these conditions could be saved and selected. - Each selection immediately opened a prototype conversation with the chosen conditions applied. - This enabled rapid testing after scenario changes, new branches, or rule updates. - The prototype became an experimentation environment rather than a static mockup, allowing the team to judge realistic conversations instead of relying on assumptions. ## Replacing Individual Fixes with General Rules - Testing revealed recurring problems, including: - Asking for information the chatbot already knew - Repeating the same explanation - Guessing when it lacked reliable information - Rather than fixing each scenario separately, the team created general rules such as: - Resolve the customer’s problem before giving explanations - Admit uncertainty instead of guessing - Escalate to a human agent only under defined conditions - Clearly limit the AI’s authority - Improving one scenario helped only that scenario, while improving a rule improved many scenarios at once. ## Designing the Experience Before the System - The team first envisioned the desired customer experience, then worked backward to determine the required: - Data structures - APIs - Operational tools - System architecture - This reversed the conventional process of designing infrastructure first and fitting the user experience onto it. - Within approximately three weeks, the team completed analysis, experience design, scenario generation, prototyping, testing, and refinement. - AI changed not only productivity but also the order of product design: designers could validate more possibilities before committing to implementation. ## Practical Lessons - Build an imperfect prototype early instead of waiting for a complete design. - Study real user data before relying solely on guides or documentation. - When similar problems recur, identify a shared rule instead of repeatedly patching individual cases. The broader recommendation is to use AI as a fast experimentation tool. Its greatest value is not simply producing artifacts, but making it cheaper and faster to test which experiences and design principles actually work.

Natural Language Processing Conversational Ai Chatbot Rapid Prototyping+3

gitlabJun 17, 20262 min readCurated summary

Introducing the 2026 EMEA GitLab Partner Award winners

GitLab announced its 2026 EMEA Partner Award winners, recognizing organizations that drove customer success, technical innovation, certification, business growth, and joint marketing. The awards highlight partners helping enterprises adopt DevSecOps, cloud-native platforms, managed services, and AI-enabled software development across the region. ## Regional Partners of the Year - **Central Europe: cc cloud GmbH** — Combines infrastructure and DevOps expertise to manage cloud applications, platforms, and IT operations. - **Northern Europe: Eficode** — Supports more than 1,600 customers through consulting, managed services, toolchain implementation, and AI-augmented development. - **Southern Europe: Kiratech** — Helps enterprises modernize infrastructure using cloud-native, DevOps, and PlatformOps practices. - **Eastern Europe and Israel: Bynet** — An established systems integrator supporting enterprise IT, cloud, cybersecurity, modernization, DevSecOps, and AI adoption. ## Technical and Enablement Awards - **Best Technical Solution/Project: Capgemini | Sogeti** — Recognized for impactful, complex technical solutions using AI-driven quality engineering, data, and cloud capabilities. - **Most Certified and Enabled Partner: Devoteam** — Awarded for having the largest number of GitLab-certified professionals. - **Rookie of the Year: ITDOTCOM** — A Uzbekistan-based technology distributor that achieved rapid success supporting software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business automation across Central Asia. ## Growth and Collaboration Awards - **First Order Master: Linux Polska** — Recognized for winning new customers and business through open-source consulting, DevOps, automation, containerization, and data analytics. - **Co-marketing Partner of the Year: Conoa, a PROACT Company** — Honored for joint marketing efforts and expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, container platforms, and managed operations. The awards demonstrate the breadth of GitLab’s EMEA partner ecosystem, from regional systems integrators and cloud specialists to technical consultants and Kubernetes providers. Together, these partners are helping customers modernize delivery practices and adopt DevSecOps and AI capabilities.

AI Kubernetes Gitlab DevSecOps+4