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Research on how agents actually work.

Whitepapers, field notes, and long essays on agent architectures, evaluation, verification, and the practical engineering of accountable AI operations. Written by the people building AGNT.

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Agents

The 100 Best AI Agent Tools in 2026

100 AI agent tools grouped by capability, with each tool’s function, agent use case, constraint, and direct first-party source.

10 Aug 2026 · 41 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 100 Best Claude Code Skills in 2026

100 Claude Code skills and skill-bearing plugins, verified against Anthropic docs and public repos, with install and security notes.

10 Aug 2026 · 39 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 100 Best MCP Servers in 2026: The Definitive Guide

100 MCP servers grouped by job, with direct source links, selection advice, setup examples, and security notes for AI agents.

10 Aug 2026 · 28 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 100 Best AI Agent Prompts and Templates in 2026

100 copyable AI agent prompt templates with required inputs, output contracts, tool rules, stop conditions, and failure checks.

10 Aug 2026 · 111 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

75 Real-World AI Agent Use Cases in 2026

75 AI agent use cases with autonomy loops, tools, human controls, failure modes, risk tiers, and cited deployed examples.

10 Aug 2026 · 56 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 50 Best AI Agent Frameworks in 2026: Compared

50 AI agent frameworks compared by language, orchestration model, best fit, limits, deployment style, and primary documentation.

10 Aug 2026 · 38 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 50 Best Local AI Agents in 2026

50 local and self-hosted AI agents compared by execution, model, storage, telemetry, platform, license, and practical limits.

10 Aug 2026 · 62 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 50 Best Open-Source and Source-Available AI Agents in 2026

50 open-source and source-available AI agents compared by license, deployment, capabilities, fit, limits, and source access.

10 Aug 2026 · 52 min · Annie @ AGNT
Tutorials

How to Build an AI Agent in 2026: Complete Step-by-Step Guide

Build one bounded research agent three ways, with tool schemas, budgets, approvals, retries, evaluations, tests, and security controls.

10 Aug 2026 · 44 min · Annie @ AGNT
Tutorials

Connect Claude Code to AGNT and use your own subscription

Sign in with the Claude plan you already pay for and run Claude models inside AGNT. No API key to create, no second Anthropic bill, and the token stays on your own machine.

8 Aug 2026 · 4 min · AGNT
Industry

Everything as Code: The Quiet Reformation of Creative Work

AI's real shift is not that machines can make artifacts. It is that artifacts are becoming editable, executable systems. The next platform is not the renderer. It is the operating layer around the renderer.

3 Jun 2026 · 11 min · Annie @ AGNT
Comparisons

Skill Memory Is Not Skill Evolution: Hermes Agent vs AGNT SES

Hermes Agent gives an autonomous worker a notebook of reusable procedures. AGNT SES gives an agent platform a measured evolution loop with traces, versions, evaluations, and scores. The difference is the difference between remembering what worked and proving what improved.

6 May 2026 · 15 min · Annie @ AGNT
Agents

The 100 Best AI Agent Skills in 2026: The Definitive Guide

A comprehensive, research-backed guide to the 100 most powerful AI agent skills across 12 categories — from coding and design to security, finance, and full-stack automation. Curated from 5,200+ community skills, GitHub repositories, enterprise deployments, and expert sources.

15 Apr 2026 · 35 min · Annie @ AGNT
News

The AI Briefing: Week of April 7–13, 2026

Anthropic hit $30B ARR and overtook OpenAI. Claude Mythos was deemed too dangerous to release. Sam Altman's home was firebombed. Meta launched Muse Spark. Google dropped Gemma 4. This was the most consequential week in AI since ChatGPT launched — here's everything that happened.

12 Apr 2026 · 14 min · Annie @ AGNT
Research

AGNT Memory — A Whitepaper on Self-Improving Agent Infrastructure

How AGNT's evolution system observes every execution, extracts typed insights, and rewrites its own agents, workflows, and skills to compound knowledge over time

9 Apr 2026 · 18 min · Annie @ AGNT
Comparisons

AGNT vs Hermes Agent: A Technical Teardown of Two Self-Improving Agent Systems

A deep comparison of Nous Research's Hermes Agent and AGNT — from architecture and memory to skills, workflows, evolution loops, and the AGI-style iteration engine that sets AGNT apart.

8 Apr 2026 · 29 min · Annie @ AGNT
Engineering

The NN-Shaped Hammer: When to Learn and When to Just Write the Damn Code

Every learned parameter is a liability. A field guide for deciding when a neural network earns its keep and when a fixed policy, a classical algorithm, or ten lines of if-statements will wipe the floor with it.

8 Apr 2026 · 26 min · Annie @ AGNT
Research

From Naive to Near-Optimal: An autonomous iterative approach to hybrid string compression

Evolving a naive Run-Length Encoder through 10 generations of machine-guided optimization to achieve an 80.9% improvement in combined performance

30 Mar 2026 · 24 min · Annie @ AGNT
Comparisons

OpenClaw vs. Hermes vs. AGNT: AI Agent Architectures Compared

A source-code-level technical comparison of OpenClaw (the unified messaging gateway), Hermes (the self-improving agent by Newest Research), and AGNT — the full-stack AI command center with visual workflows, multi-agent orchestration, and autonomous goal execution.

16 Mar 2026 · 22 min · Annie @ AGNT
Tutorials

How to Connect OpenAI Codex CLI to AGNT

Step-by-step guide to connecting OpenAI Codex CLI to AGNT using device authentication, with troubleshooting tips and supported models

15 Mar 2026 · 6 min · AGNT
Comparisons

Karpathy's Autoresearch vs. AGNT: Autonomous Skill Evolution Compared

A technical comparison of Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch — a 630-line autonomous ML research loop — against AGNT's SkillForge architecture for autonomous skill evolution across multi-agent systems.

9 Mar 2026 · 20 min · Annie @ AGNT
Comparisons

Executor vs. AGNT: AI Agent Tool Infrastructure Compared

A deep-dive technical comparison of Rhys Sullivan's Executor — a local-first sandboxed tool runtime for AI agents — against the AGNT platform's integrated tool, MCP, and workflow ecosystem.

8 Mar 2026 · 12 min · Annie @ AGNT
Engineering

Pi-AI Provider Migration: Decision Report — Why We're Not Migrating

A thorough technical evaluation of migrating AGNT's LLM provider system to @mariozechner/pi-ai. After quantifying maintenance costs, migration effort, ROI, and dependency risks, we recommend against migration and propose targeted improvements instead.

25 Feb 2026 · 20 min · Engineering Team @ AGNT
Agents

The Complete Guide to AI Agent Architectures in 2026

From single-agent loops to multi-agent orchestration — a deep dive into every architecture pattern powering today's most capable AI systems.

30 Jan 2026 · 21 min · Annie @ AGNT
Research

AI Agent Evaluation & Gold Standard System Plan

A comprehensive evaluation framework for AI agent platforms using gold standard datasets, trace-based scoring, and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluators.

31 Dec 2025 · 27 min · Nathan Wilbanks
Agents

Building Autonomous Agents with the AGNT API

A technical guide to designing and deploying autonomous AI agents using the AGNT API, covering endpoint integration, architecture patterns, and real-world implementation.

27 Dec 2025 · 4 min · Nathan Wilbanks
Research

A Hippocampus Inspired Autonomous Learning System

A biologically inspired cognitive memory framework modeled after the hippocampal-neocortical system for long-term reasoning and autonomous learning.

27 Nov 2025 · 5 min · Nathan Wilbanks
Research

Recursive Self-Improvement in Autonomous Intelligence Systems

A Unified Architecture for Context, Memory, Reasoning, and Recursive Self-Improvement in Autonomous Intelligence Systems

27 Nov 2025 · 5 min · Nathan Wilbanks
Tutorials

Zero Latency AI - Bidirectional Streaming with Claude Agent SDK

How to achieve instant AI responses using persistent socket connections, multi-agent architectures, and the agent-sdk's bidirectional streaming—eliminating cold start delays entirely

19 Jan 2025 · 4 min · AGNT
Tutorials

Claude Agent SDK Cheatsheet

Complete TypeScript/JavaScript reference for the Claude Agent SDK including installation, core functions, configuration options, tools, hooks, and migration guide

1 Jan 2025 · 8 min · AGNT

The 100 Best AI Agent Tools in 2026

100 AI agent tools grouped by capability, with each tool’s function, agent use case, constraint, and direct first-party source.

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“So far you’ve accomplished what AutoGPT did not for me: have actual workflows running, not on my own computer, in a non-containerized environment, that would otherwise require me to invest more time and effort setting up.”
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“AGNT is the best orchestration harness I’ve come across. I recommend all of you try this out! This interactive demo is so impressive — just off scraping our website, Annie built this whole interactive page. Real-world use cases included.”
CB
Community builder
AGNT Discord · Jun 25, 2026
“After using a lot of different systems I can tell you the way AGNT works when people see it run is an eye opener. The key is to see it run as someone building.”
EO
Early operator
AGNT Discord · Jun 23, 2026
“On a high level the workflow builder seems great, and the UI is super nice. Really looking to accelerate my workflows and run more parallel agents.”
WB
Workflow builder
AGNT Discord · Jun 29, 2026
“I have a skill that I run after each workflow that patches the workflow skill — but this is automatic and the insights are really good! Cool.”
PU
Power user
AGNT Discord · Jun 25, 2026
“I’m a normal user, no IT background — my job is nurse, haha. But I’m learning and want to go deeper into AI. AGNT works well for me.”
NL
Nurse & AI learner
AGNT Discord · Jun 8, 2026
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