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Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio

Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio

Armanas Povilionis introduces Froglet, an open-source protocol addressing the critical need for verifiable agent-to-agent collaboration in AI workflows, especially in scientific research. Froglet enables agents to discover, transact with, and receive tamper-proof receipts for services across organizational boundaries, transforming them into 'executive chefs' managing distributed supply chains rather than isolated 'cooks' with more tools. The protocol streamlines interactions into a signed flow (Descriptor -> Offer -> Quote -> Deal -> Receipt) and integrates with diverse agent harnesses and execution environments, abstracting complex operations for LLM-driven agents.

Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden

Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang, leaders of Anthropic's developer platform, outline their strategy built on a "three-layer cake": knowledge, execution, and coordination. They emphasize moving towards advanced "strategies" or meta-harnesses that assign distinct jobs to tokens, fostering a robust and open AI ecosystem. The discussion covers empowering builders, setting industry standards, and Anthropic's nuanced approach to an open platform versus a walled garden, focusing on architectural soundness over infrastructure ownership.

Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw - Nick Taylor, Pomerium

Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw - Nick Taylor, Pomerium

This talk details how the speaker contributed a "trusted-proxy auth mode" to the OpenClaw project to enhance security and user experience by eliminating the need for tokens and device pairing. It explains the technical implementation of this mode using Identity-Aware Proxies like Pomerium. The speaker also demonstrates a unique workflow, building and live-editing a Multi-Modal Chatbot Protocol (MCP) application directly within ChatGPT, controlled by their OpenClaw instance via Discord, showcasing the power of secure, natural language-driven web development.

Cloud, Containers & Security • Adrian Mouat, Kief Morris & Sam Newman • GOTO 2025

Cloud, Containers & Security • Adrian Mouat, Kief Morris & Sam Newman • GOTO 2025

In this panel discussion, experts Adrian Mouat, Kief Morris, and Sam Newman delve into the current landscape of cloud technology, container security, and infrastructure automation. They cover key topics such as supply chain security with Sigstore and SBOMs, the practical impact of AI on deterministic systems, the ongoing debate about cloud repatriation, and advanced Infrastructure as Code practices like TDD and managing configuration drift.

[404] – Developer Not Found: The Continuing Developer Evolution • Derek Bingham • YOW! 2025

[404] – Developer Not Found: The Continuing Developer Evolution • Derek Bingham • YOW! 2025

Derek Bingham explores the rapid evolution of developer tools with AI, from coding assistants to autonomous agents. He emphasizes the shift from prompt engineering to context engineering, introduces Spec-Driven Development (SDD) as a framework for quality AI-generated code, and dispels fears about AI replacing developers, arguing instead for increased demand and the necessity of new skills like ethical and systems thinking.

Power agents with full context of your experiments and traces with W&B MCP server

Power agents with full context of your experiments and traces with W&B MCP server

The W&B Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a hosted endpoint that enables AI agents to intelligently interact with all Weights & Biases data, including runs, traces, evaluations, and reports. It features discovery tools for smart queries, automated analysis for comparing experiments and identifying regressions, and seamless integration with IDEs, coding agents, and chat interfaces like Mistral AI for streamlined ML workflows and on-the-go reporting.