A 2026 study found 26% of agent skills from public marketplaces contain vulnerabilities — and 5% show patterns of deliberate malice. NVIDIA’s SkillSpector scans skills before installation using static analysis and optional LLM review. This post covers what it catches, how to run it in CI, and the blind spots you still own. Table Of […]

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Your agentic app just ran a search. The tool returned 500 results as JSON. Your agent appended all of it and fired off an API call — 45,000 tokens to answer a question that needed maybe 4,500. Tejas Manohar, a senior engineer at Netflix, hit this problem every day. He was running out of tokens […]

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You give your AI coding agent a task. It gets to work. Thirty tool calls later you have code — and it’s not what you needed. The agent understood the words but missed the intent. It made a dozen small decisions that individually seemed reasonable, and collectively built the wrong thing. This isn’t a capability […]

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Why the biggest problem with MCP isn’t the protocol — it’s the context window tax. And how Code Mode solves it. Table of Contents What Is MCP? A Quick Refresher Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents connect to external tools and services. Think of it as a universal adapter: […]

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