Tag: AI Agents

2026-08-10 • Alex Merced

The Plan and the Worker: Two Open Specifications for Agent Harnesses

Two open specifications, the Agentic Graph Specification and the Open Agent Profile, turn agent plans and agent identity...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Budgeting for Agentic Analytics When Every Question Costs Something Different

Budgeting for agentic analytics when every question costs something different: token economics, query economics, instrum...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server Sits

The five layers of an agentic lakehouse and where the MCP server sits: storage, catalog, semantic layer, MCP gateway, an...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Wiring Analytical Queries to Transactional APIs in Closed-Loop Decision Agents

Wiring analytical queries to transactional APIs in closed-loop decision agents: conditional writes, sagas with compensat...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Why Agentic AI Needs a Governed Semantic Layer Behind the Model Context Protocol

Why agentic AI needs a governed semantic layer behind the Model Context Protocol: metric consistency, access control, Ap...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Moving From Supply Chain Dashboards to Decision Loops With the Model Context Protocol

Moving from supply chain dashboards to decision loops with MCP: sense, decide, act, and verify, with typed action tools,...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Metric Contracts as the Interface AI Agents Actually Need

Metric contracts as the interface AI agents need: calculation, inclusion rules, grain, temporal semantics, ownership, se...

2026-08-04 • Alex Merced

Defending the Lakehouse Gateway Against Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

Defending the lakehouse gateway against prompt injection and data exfiltration: per-user identity, no-SQL tool surfaces,...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

Guardrails for Analytics Agents That Do More Than Answer Questions

The risk isn't agents going rogue, it's agents acting correctly on bad input at machine speed. Here's how to classify ac...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

Building Agent Telemetry Tables in Iceberg That Survive an Audit

A practical guide to building agent decision traces in Apache Iceberg that support audit reconstruction, governance revi...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

What Agentic Analytics Actually Costs, and How to Keep It Bounded

Agent analytics generates two cost streams that scale on different variables. Here's the arithmetic, the levers that act...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

When the Query Optimizer Starts Managing Its Own Materializations

Autonomous materialized view management replaces quarterly review meetings with workload-driven scoring, and it's essent...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

Why AI Agents Fail on Raw Data, and What to Give Them Instead

Agents fail on raw lake data because business rules live in people's heads. Data products with semantic contracts fix th...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

The Five Layers Between Your Lakehouse and a Trustworthy Agent

Agent reliability is a property of the stack the model sits on. Five layers with distinct owners and failure modes turn ...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

Surviving Commit Conflicts When Dozens of Writers Hit the Same Iceberg Table

Commit conflicts multiply with writer count, and AI agents introduce unpredictable write patterns. Here's how to diagnos...

2026-07-28 • Alex Merced

Wiring an AI Agent to Apache Polaris with the Model Context Protocol

The catalog is the right attachment point for AI agents working against a lakehouse. Here's how to wire the official Pol...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Active Analytics Loops for AI Action Agents

An in-depth exploration of active analytics loops for ai action agents...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

The Chase-Catch Gap in Enterprise AI Agents

An in-depth exploration of the chase-catch gap in enterprise ai agents...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Data Lakehouse Open Standards for AI Agents

An in-depth exploration of data lakehouse open standards for ai agents...

2026-07-13 • Alex Merced

Five-Layer Agentic Lakehouse Architecture

An in-depth exploration of five-layer agentic lakehouse architecture...

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