Saturday, 7th March 2026
Scaling Agents: The Definitive Open-Source Guide — From 1 Agent to 100 Agents, 1 Tool to 100 Tools, Managing Context
Tool Wall: Every tool’s JSON schema goes into the system prompt. At 15+ tools, models start selecting wrong tools. At 50+, token usage explodes and accuracy plummets.
[... 4,423 words]How Pi Builds Its System Prompt at Runtime — And the Innovations That Make It Stand Out
A deep dive into the open-source coding agent that assembles its brain on the fly.
[... 2,918 words]How Claude Team Agents ACTUALLY Connect — No Fluff
Agents are separate processes. They don’t share memory. They don’t call each other’s functions. They communicate through files on disk and CLI commands that Claude Code provides as tools.
[... 2,382 words]How AWS Strands Agent Loop Works
Strands uses the ReAct pattern — a recursive loop where the LLM reasons, optionally calls tools, observes results, then reasons again. It is NOT prompt chaining (where you have a fixed sequence of prompts). The loop is open-ended and driven by the model’s decisions.
[... 650 words]How AWS Strands Hooks Work
Hooks are an event-driven extensibility system — a way to inject custom logic at specific points in the agent lifecycle without modifying core code. Think of them as middleware/interceptors.
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