--- author: "Umesh Malik" canonical: "https://umesh-malik.com/blog/tag/ai-agents" description: "Explore articles tagged with AI Agents by Umesh Malik — AI Engineer, LLM & GenAI Developer. Learn AI Agents best practices, practical tips, and in-depth guides." title: "Umesh Malik's Blog - AI Agents Articles | AI Agents Tutorials" tokens: 2826 generator: "scripts/generate-page-markdown.mjs" --- [← Back to Blog](https://umesh-malik.com/blog) # AI Agents 21 articles [![How server-side compaction replaces a long agent transcript with a single summary block once input tokens cross the trigger, and what is kept versus permanently dropped](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agent-context-compaction-what-survives-cover.png) AI Engineering • Aug 12, 2026 ### Agent context compaction: keep what the 150K cutoff drops Agent context compaction drops every block before the summary at 150K tokens. What survives, what instructions silently replaces, and the usage field that lies. 9 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agent-context-compaction-what-survives) [![Cover showing the four-layer agent containment stack — deny egress, scope identity, watch live, kill fast — alongside the AISI evaluation figures of 122 runs, 10 off-scope runs and containment in under an hour](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/sandbox-ai-agent-internet-access-cover.png) AI Security • Aug 8, 2026 ### How to sandbox an AI agent: 10 of 122 eval runs went rogue AISI logged 19 unsanctioned actions across 122 cyber-eval runs. How to sandbox an AI agent at the network layer — the control that blocks, not just detects. 10 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/sandbox-ai-agent-internet-access) [![Ads for AI agents: TIME serves markdown with sponsored FAQ blocks to AI crawlers and HTML to humans](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/ads-for-ai-agents-time-markdown-crawlers-cover.png) AI Engineering • Aug 6, 2026 ### Ads for AI Agents: TIME Serves Crawlers a Different Site Ads for AI agents are live. TIME serves crawlers a 42 KB markdown site with sponsored blocks; humans and Googlebot get 1.2 MB of HTML. I measured all of it. 10 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/ads-for-ai-agents-time-markdown-crawlers) [![Agent harness design diagram: a model's reasoning discarded each turn versus reasoning retained and context compacted across turns](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agent-harness-design-arc-agi-3-cover.png) AI Engineering • Aug 5, 2026 ### Agent Harness Design: Why an ARC-AGI-3 Score Tripled Agent harness design decided a benchmark: OpenAI's ARC-AGI-3 score went 13.3% → 38.3% with zero model changes. What that means for your agent loop. 11 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agent-harness-design-arc-agi-3) [![MCP write controls diagram: a tool call passing through a policy layer that allows, labels, or blocks it before the handler runs](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/mcp-write-controls-cloudflare-writeguard-cover.png) AI Security • Aug 5, 2026 ### MCP Write Controls: Lessons from Cloudflare WriteGuard MCP write controls decide what your agents can break. Cloudflare's WriteGuard shows the pattern: per-tool risk tiers, agent attribution, central audit. 13 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/mcp-write-controls-cloudflare-writeguard) [![Cover card titled The Gate, subtitled Thousands of tickets. One agent., with three statistics: 4 risk tiers, Cloudflare's MCP portal growing 13 to 27 servers, and tool annotations marked untrusted per the MCP spec](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/secure-mcp-write-tools-writeguard-cover.png) AI Security • Aug 5, 2026 ### How to Secure MCP Write Tools: Cloudflare's WriteGuard Lesson How to secure MCP write tools: the spec puts confirmation on the client — the one layer you don't control. Cloudflare's WriteGuard moves the gate server-side. 11 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/secure-mcp-write-tools-writeguard) [![Diagram of an AI agent paying an API over the x402 HTTP 402 protocol using a Cloudflare Virtual Wallet](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/cloudflare-wallets-x402-agent-payments-cover.png) AI Engineering • Aug 4, 2026 ### Cloudflare Wallets and x402: How AI Agents Pay for APIs Cloudflare Wallets and x402 explained: how AI agents get a spending identity, how HTTP 402 payments work, and what breaks when your agent holds a budget. 10 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/cloudflare-wallets-x402-agent-payments) [![Production-grade AI agents — the funnel from 353,000 course registrations down to 6,000 shipped agent projects](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/production-grade-ai-agents-vibe-to-live-gap-cover.png) AI Engineering • Aug 4, 2026 ### Production-Grade AI Agents: The Vibe-to-Live Gap Production-grade AI agents need more than a working demo. 353,000 signed up to learn agents; 6,000 shipped a capstone. Here's exactly what closes the gap. 11 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/production-grade-ai-agents-vibe-to-live-gap) [![Agent-to-human delegation — an AI agent handing a task to a human coworker in a chat tool](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agent-to-human-delegation-cover.png) AI Engineering • Aug 3, 2026 ### Agent-to-Human Delegation: Why Your AI Shouldn't DM Coworkers Agent-to-human delegation is the pattern nobody designed for: your AI messaging a coworker. Why it lands badly, and the handoff rules that fix it. 10 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agent-to-human-delegation) [![DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 agent benchmark results compared against the preview build and V4-Pro Preview](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/deepseek-v4-flash-0731-benchmarks-cover.png) LLM Engineering • Aug 1, 2026 ### DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Benchmarks: 13B Active Beats 1.6T DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 benchmarks: same 284B/13B architecture as the preview, re-post-trained only — and it beats the 1.6T V4-Pro Preview on nine agent tests. 9 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/deepseek-v4-flash-0731-benchmarks) [![ChatGPT super app reform showing the Apps SDK built on MCP with inline app UIs and the App Directory](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/chatgpt-apps-sdk-cover.png) AI Engineering • Jul 11, 2026 ### ChatGPT Apps SDK and the Super App Reform: How Apps in ChatGPT Work (2026) The ChatGPT Apps SDK explained: how apps in ChatGPT work, why it's built on MCP, who the launch partners are, and how developers build and submit apps. 7 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/chatgpt-apps-sdk-super-app-guide) [![GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna comparison showing price, coding strength, and cost per task](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/gpt-5-6-sol-terra-luna-cover.png) LLM Engineering • Jul 11, 2026 ### GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna: The Routing Strategy That Cuts Cost GPT-5.6 Sol vs Terra vs Luna compared on price, coding, latency, and cost per task — plus a routing strategy that cuts your bill without wrecking quality. 5 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/gpt-5-6-sol-vs-terra-vs-luna) [![OpenAI GPT-5.6 family showing Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers with benchmarks, pricing, and 1.05M context](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/gpt-5-6-cover.png) LLM Engineering • Jul 11, 2026 ### GPT-5.6 API: Pricing, Thinking Modes, and the Shared Context Trap GPT-5.6 API pricing ($1-$30/1M), the Ultra and Max thinking modes, and a 1.05M context window that is shared — with the fine print that breaks agent loops. 10 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/openai-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-luna-guide) [![Editorial cover: build enterprise-grade AI agents for free with open-source MaxKB, $0 API cost, self-hosted](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/build-enterprise-ai-agents-free-cover.png) AI Engineering • Jul 8, 2026 ### How to Build Enterprise-Grade AI Agents for Free (MaxKB, 2026) How to build enterprise-grade AI agents for free in 2026: a hands-on MaxKB + local LLM guide to RAG precision, security, and $0 API cost. 10 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/build-enterprise-ai-agents-free) [![The Agentic Browsing category in PageSpeed Insights scoring a website for AI agents alongside Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agentic-browsing-pagespeed-ai-ready-cover.png) AI Engineering • Jun 19, 2026 ### Agentic Browsing in PageSpeed Insights: How to Make Your Website AI-Ready (2026) Agentic browsing in PageSpeed Insights grades your site for AI agents, not just humans. What the category checks, why Google added it, how to pass it. 9 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agentic-browsing-pagespeed-ai-ready) [![Editorial cover: the demo-to-production gap for autonomous AI agents in 2026](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/autonomous-ai-agents-production-gap-2026-cover.png) AI Engineering • Jun 14, 2026 ### Why 77% of Autonomous AI Agents Never Reach Production (2026) Only 23% of autonomous AI agents reach production in 2026. The demo-to-production gap, why agents fail, and the playbook the winners actually use. 9 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/autonomous-ai-agents-production-gap-2026) [![Architecture of a production Model Context Protocol server on Cloudflare Workers](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/how-to-build-mcp-server-cover.png) AI Engineering • Jun 8, 2026 ### How to Build an MCP Server: A Step-by-Step Guide (2026) How to build an MCP server, step by step: JSON-RPC 2.0, the Streamable HTTP transport, typed tools, and agent discovery — from a real one I shipped. 9 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/how-to-build-mcp-server) [![Nvidia OpenClaw strategy cover showing task assignment, agent execution, guardrails, and enterprise runtime control](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/nvidia-openclaw-cover.png) AI Coding Agents & DX • Mar 17, 2026 ### Nvidia OpenClaw Explained: Your AI Agent Strategy (GTC 2026) At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang said every company needs a Nvidia OpenClaw strategy. Here is what it means and what U.S. teams should do next. 6 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/nvidia-openclaw-strategy-ai-agent-plan) [![Anthropic Code Review cover showing multi-agent pull request review across repository context and custom review rules](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/anthropic-code-review-cover.png) AI Coding Agents & DX • Mar 10, 2026 ### Claude Code Review: How It Works, Pricing & Setup Anthropic's Claude Code Review runs multi-agent PR reviews for $15-$25 each. How it works, pricing, REVIEW.md setup, and where it beats linters. 6 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/anthropic-code-review-claude-code-guide) [![Agentic AI enterprise security cover showing identity, prompt injection, policy gates, and observability](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agentic-ai-enterprise-security-cover.png) AI Security • Mar 9, 2026 ### Agentic AI Security: The New Enterprise Control Model Agentic AI security breaks the old enterprise trust model. How to fix identity, delegated authority, prompt injection defense, and tool-level policy in 2026. 8 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/agentic-ai-enterprise-security-model) [![OpenAI GPT-5.4 overview showing professional work, coding, computer use, and 1M context](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/gpt-5-4-cover.png) LLM Engineering • Mar 6, 2026 ### GPT-5.4 for Agents: Computer Use, MCP Tool Calls, and Real Pricing GPT-5.4's native computer use and MCP tool calls are the real upgrade for agents. What holds up in a loop, what the 1M context costs, and how Pro compares. 12 min read Read more →](https://umesh-malik.com/blog/openai-gpt-5-4-complete-guide)