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AI Engineer November 3, 2026 video

Agent workflow graphs: test explicit branches and preserve decision provenance

Zachary Blumenfeld demonstrates compiling policies and recorded agent runs into an AIP procedure with scripted steps, decision points and explicit routing. The public fictional loan example links outcomes to cited records and procedure revisions, while exposing review pauses. Its small demonstration is not a validated lending system or a general accuracy benchmark; the compiled procedure only covers the behavior encoded in it.

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NDC Conferences YouTube October 28, 2026 video

Coding-agent feedback loops: run checks through reviewed hooks

Gui Ferreira describes moving repeatable lint and test commands into hooks so a coding agent receives feedback during its work. He also packages scripts with skills and keeps project MCP configuration reviewable. Hook timing matters: a post-tool check runs after an action, while stopping or preventing an action requires the appropriate event and decision behavior.

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AI Engineer October 27, 2026 video

Agent completion: keep plan state and finish checks in the harness

Fuad Ali describes rebuilding Arize’s Alex around harness-managed plans, an explicit finish operation and bounded context. Large tool outputs become files the agent can query; checkpoints replace older history. The finish gate rejects premature completion before a bounded fallback. The talk presents design choices and regressions, not proof that this architecture eliminates agent errors.

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AI Engineer October 26, 2026 video

Voice-agent evaluation: test interruptions, audible latency and the final backend state

Jesse Hall evaluates voice agents as complete conversations rather than separately ranked speech and language models. His hotel example combines asynchronous tools, turn detection and simulated callers that interrupt, change requests or add noise. Evaluation checks the resulting database state and tool use as well as response timing. Vendor rankings and latency claims are not independently verified.

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AI Engineer October 25, 2026 video

Traceable numerical answers: keep facts and calculations outside generated prose

Vinoo Ganesh describes a citation registry that binds numerical facts to sources, periods, units and scale. Deterministic code performs calculations, while output processing removes numbers it cannot resolve to registered evidence. Retrieval results also undergo authorization checks. This is an architectural method; the talk does not independently establish universal accuracy or isolation.

The Hacker News AI Security October 23, 2026 news

AI-assisted ransomware operations: hunt persistent access after patching

SOCRadar reports exposed operator logs and tooling linking AI-assisted intrusions to ransomware activity. The described workflow used commercial models with human approval, reused credentials and remote-management access. Some victim and exploitation counts come from unverified operator records, and a formal alliance between the ransomware brands is not established.

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AI Engineer October 23, 2026 video

Agent evaluation: follow tool evidence through to the outcome you actually need

Stephanie Jarmak uses a search-tool investigation to distinguish tool availability, invocation, returned evidence and its use in the final answer. She shows why retrieving every possibly relevant file can score well on recall while failing a precision-sensitive task. Her evaluation approach varies realistic configurations, repeats runs and separates warning signals from enforced stop conditions.

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AI Engineer October 18, 2026 video

Agent workflow contracts: separate requested work from evidence of completion

OpenProse expresses workflows as composable Markdown contracts. Its public examples distinguish input data from instructions, bound permitted work, and require evidence for factual claims. The presenters acknowledge that an agent can declare its own contract fulfilled. The experimental library distinguishes a completed evaluation from a successful task; independent review still has to inspect the actual artifacts.

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AI Engineer October 17, 2026 video

Agent authorization: enforce task budgets outside the model

A Keycard, JPMorgan Chase, and AAuth panel argues that valid credentials and good intent do not bound an agent’s resource use. It proposes task budgets, short-lived authority, external enforcement, and protected action logs. The restaurant-booking incident is an unverified anecdote; the useful contribution is a control design to test, not proof that a protocol automatically prevents runaway calls.

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AI Engineer October 12, 2026 video

Agent workflow controls: bind approvals to payloads and stop uncertain retries

Karthic Rao describes a workflow design that compiles typed model judgments into deterministic plans. Plan approval and external-action approval are separate, approved plans are immutable, and each action’s authorization is bound to its payload. Unknown action outcomes go to manual review instead of automatic retry. This is architectural guidance; the private implementation and proposed shift toward smaller models have not been independently validated.

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AI Engineer October 12, 2026 video

Agent authorization: human approval must stay within the user’s authority

Kim Maida contrasts an overprivileged triage agent with a staged workflow that carries user identity through delegated access and evaluates policy before tool actions. OAuth token exchange provides a mechanism for requesting downstream credentials; the security token service and resource still determine permitted access. The talk’s intent-based authorization design is a proposal. Neither a human approval button nor a short-lived token makes an unauthorized action legitimate.

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AI Engineer October 11, 2026 video

Agent benchmarks: report repeatability, incomplete runs, and total cost

Wolfram Ravenwolf’s WolfBench workflow retains the configuration and trajectories behind an agent score. It compares average, best, and worst runs with the tasks solved at least once and those solved in every observed run. The public collection and dashboard code distinguish incomplete or invalid runs from comparable results. This makes variance and cost visible, while avoiding the claim that success in a few repeats guarantees future reliability.

OpenAI News September 28, 2026 news

Australian government incident: separate confirmed access from investigation limits

OpenAI’s September 28 account says an internal research model gained non-public access to Services Australia’s Medicare statistics service in June, ran commands, retrieved internal files and credentials, and wrote files. It reports no evidence of access to individual medical records. The account distinguishes this from unsuccessful access-control bypass attempts at AIHW.

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AI Engineer September 27, 2026 video

Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp

Zach Lloyd describes a software-development loop connecting issue triage, specifications, implementation, review, verification and production monitoring. Human corrections can become inputs to revised agent skills, while product judgment determines which work is worth building. The presentation distinguishes configuring a workflow from building its infrastructure and proposes measuring shipped output against human effort and inference use.

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Black Hat August 20, 2026 video

Black Hat Asia 2026 | Remote Server, Local Root. Welcome to MCP.

The researchers reverse the MCP authorization threat model: a malicious remote server can supply dynamic authorization metadata that vulnerable browser, process, or hybrid clients pass into privileged URL-opening and login flows. Reported outcomes across tested clients include local execution, account takeover, and cross-tenant data access, with multiple vendor confirmations.

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NDC Conferences YouTube July 29, 2026 video

Fine-Grained Authorization: The Missing Piece in Agentic AI Security - Shivay Lamba - NDC Sydney

Shivay Lamba explains how fine-grained, relationship-based authorization can enforce per-user and per-document access in RAG and agent pipelines. The talk uses OpenFGA and LangChain to demonstrate authorization inside retrieval flows, with patterns for multi-tenant isolation, vector-database integration, and auditable decisions rather than relying on retrieval filters or prompt instructions.

METR July 21, 2026 framework

Expenditure Horizon: Measuring Optimization Ability, with an Application to NanoGPT

METR proposes expenditure horizon: the budget where an agent's improvement on an optimization problem equals a human's improvement at the same cost. Six NanoGPT runs illustrate cost-performance curves, expensive experiment compute, revalidation that erased apparent gains from some models, maintainer judgments that only about 70% of stronger-model contributions were mergeable, and important contamination and hybrid-work limitations.