Cognition raises $1B Series D as async background agents emerge as dominant AI coding paradigm
“async agents were the most AGI pilled bet you could make in 2024”
agent-frameworks
8 tracked signals on agent-frameworks.
Agent frameworks force humans to stay on-task, undermining the promise of autonomous agents
“SSH with vibes”
LangChain CEO argues companies must own their agent harness to truly own their AI intelligence
“The main job of a harness is to bring context to the model at the right point in time.”
Microsoft Foundry's Hosted Agents, now in preview, runs your bring-your-own agent code at cloud scale.
“You can write that code, test it out locally, and then in hosted agents, we will go run it for you.”
Flue v2 launches as first stable agent framework built on React-style Agent Hooks
Agent harnesses will evolve into autonomous 'claws' — the next phase beyond current frameworks
“welcome to the harness era”
LangChain's Deep Agents is a batteries-included harness for complex, long-running agent tasks.
“Deep Agents is a batteries included harness for building agents that excel at complex and long running tasks.”
AWS Strands Agents TypeScript SDK has reached its 1.0 release.
“I created a couple of blog posts and videos recently using Strands agents and the new TypeScript version that just went into 1.0”