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2026-08-25 • Alex Merced

Securing the Agentic Lakehouse Gateway: Preventing Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

Agentic lakehouse gateways face prompt injection and exfiltration through query results. A threat model and defenses for...

2026-08-25 • Alex Merced

Metric Contracts in Code: Testing, Versioning, and Serving Business Logic to Multi-Agent Systems

Metric contracts in code let teams test, version, and serve business logic to multi-agent systems without each agent inv...

2026-08-25 • Alex Merced

Query Routing at Machine Scale: Dynamic Workload Distribution Across Lakehouse Engines

Route each lakehouse query by shape, not by sender. Signals, rules, and how to keep dashboards, batch jobs, and agents f...

2026-08-24 • Alex Merced

The Agent Is Now a Named Coworker, and It Needs a File Format

Named, persistent agents need a file format. Open Agent Profile, Buzz, Grok Bot, and Hermes Bot Mode show why a portable...

2026-08-24 • Alex Merced

Your Agent Should Answer the Phone: A Field Guide to AI Gateways on Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, and Teams

A field guide to AI gateways on Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, and Teams: architecture, auth, cost, and the failure m...

2026-08-24 • Alex Merced

Graphs in AI Engineering Have Solved Three Problems. The Fourth Is the Plan.

Knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, and LangGraph solved three problems. The fourth is the work itself: a reviewable graph of bo...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Goal-Directed Data Quality Agents: Anomaly Quarantine on Apache Iceberg

Goal-directed data quality agents that watch Apache Iceberg tables, detect anomalies, and quarantine suspect data safely...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Metric Contracts in 2026: Standardizing Business Logic Across Multi-Agent Frameworks

Metric contracts in 2026: versioned, testable definitions of business logic that let multi-agent frameworks compute reve...

2026-08-19 • Alex Merced

Building Stateless AI Tool Gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP Spec, and Kubernetes

How to build stateless AI tool gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP specification, and Kubernetes, and why statelessness ...

2026-07-25 • Alex Merced

Governing What Agents Cost You

Agents break the four assumptions analytics platforms were built on. A practical guide to identity, budgets, semantic la...

2026-07-06 • Alex Merced

Designing Your Own AI Harness: A Deep Dive Into the Architecture of Agent Loops, Tools, Context, and Control

A deep dive into custom AI harness architecture: model layers, tool design, context management, permissions, control bud...

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