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Agentic AI

Agentic AI for the enterprise: agent architecture, permissions, autonomy, human approval and observability. Start with Designing for Agents: When Software Starts to Act, or see the AI Architecture Review and AI Strategy Advisory.

  • 3 November 2026

    Multi Agent Systems for reliable QA agents

    Build agentic QA with Multi Agent Systems: wire LLMs to browser automation, minimise failing tests, capture state, and de-flake with golden traces.

  • 1 November 2026

    Enterprise AI Agents: LLM‑aware defences

    Malware now uses LLMs to triage victims. Ship LLM‑aware defences for Enterprise AI Agents: egress allowlists, model‑load blocks, and canary traps.

  • 29 October 2026

    Private LLM for Enterprise: Stand Up Hob

    Deploy Hob as a Private LLM for Enterprise: on‑device models, secure tools, repo access, and repeatable benchmarks in a weekend.

  • 23 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems for OSINT with VoidAccess

    Build a query‑to‑graph OSINT agent with Multi Agent Systems: scrape Tor safely, extract entities, store a graph, and add GraphRAG.

  • 21 October 2026

    NVIDIA OpenShell: A Practical Safety Stack

    NVIDIA OpenShell signals a push to tame AI agents. Here’s how to build identity, policy, and observability guardrails now—without rewriting your stack.

  • 21 October 2026

    OpenAI Orchestra Bio acquisition: audit-ready

    The OpenAI Orchestra Bio acquisition shows where AI agents are headed. I map lab‑grade controls to enterprise patterns for auditable workflows.

  • 19 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems meet a closing web

    Keep Multi Agent Systems working as sites block AI by building a compliant fetch layer: AI robots.txt, signed identity, throttling, caching, and APIs.

  • 15 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems need real containment

    Multi Agent Systems don’t go rogue; weak containment does. Ship agentic features safely with rootless isolation, read-only FS, egress allowlists, eBPF…

  • 13 October 2026

    Self-Replicating AI Agents: Controls Now

    Self-replicating AI agents are nearing viability on consumer devices. Here’s how to contain them with sandboxing, egress gating, segmentation and MDM.

  • 13 October 2026

    Multi Agent Systems that Ship Software

    Use Multi Agent Systems, tests-first task graphs, hermetic sandboxes, and merge gates to turn codegen churn into shipped software.

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