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Practical notes on human-reviewed AI agents.

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Product

Facio's Notebook Editing: How AI Agents Read and Modify Jupyter Notebooks at the Cell Level

Jun 8, 2026Product

Facio's Notebook Editing: How AI Agents Read and Modify Jupyter Notebooks at the Cell Level

Jupyter notebooks are a mess for AI agents. The JSON structure obscures the actual code, cells are interleaved with outputs and metadata, and most agents treat the whole notebook as opaque text. Facio's notebook_edit tool works at the cell level — read, replace, insert, and delete individual code and markdown cells with surgical precision. Here's why notebook-aware editing matters for data science agents.

Security

Your Monitoring Says Green, Your Agent Is Wrong: The Observability Gap Killing Production AI

Jun 8, 2026Security

Your Monitoring Says Green, Your Agent Is Wrong: The Observability Gap Killing Production AI

Traditional monitoring can keep 99.99% availability while the agent's decisions degrade quality across the workflow. Decision integrity is the new observability surface — and OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions plus the new MCP tracing layer are finally making it tractable. Here's how to build for it.

Product

Facio's Media Generation Tools: How AI Agents Create Images and Videos Programmatically

Jun 7, 2026Product

Facio's Media Generation Tools: How AI Agents Create Images and Videos Programmatically

AI agents that can only produce text are leaving half their potential on the table. Facio's generate_image and generate_video tools let agents create visual content programmatically — across OpenAI, Google Gemini, Replicate, and fal.ai — with provider-agnostic APIs, HITL approval gates, and direct delivery to any channel. Here's how autonomous visual content creation works in production.

Security

The Sentence That Stole an npm Token: How AI Agents Became the Third Class of Lateral Movement

Jun 7, 2026Security

The Sentence That Stole an npm Token: How AI Agents Became the Third Class of Lateral Movement

A single GitHub issue title — just a sentence — compromised a CI/CD pipeline and published a poisoned npm package. No network intrusion. No credential theft. Just an AI agent bridging an untrusted comment field and a privileged software supply chain. Welcome to agent-mediated lateral movement.