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Practical notes on human-reviewed AI agents.

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Product

Why Facio Agents Get Smarter Every Session: The Compounding Returns of Institutional Memory

Jun 26, 2026Product

Why Facio Agents Get Smarter Every Session: The Compounding Returns of Institutional Memory

A stateless AI agent starts every conversation from zero — no knowledge of the user, no awareness of past work, no institutional context. The user re-explains, the agent re-investigates, the workflow repeats from scratch. A Facio agent with institutional memory starts every session with accumulated knowledge: the user's preferences, the project's history, the lessons learned, the patterns that work. The result is compounding returns — each session is faster, more accurate, and more personalized than the last. Here's how the compounding happens.

Security

Your AI Agent Pulled 100,000 Malicious MCP Server Pulls Last Quarter: The Supply Chain Attack Class Nobody Is Indexing

Jun 26, 2026Security

Your AI Agent Pulled 100,000 Malicious MCP Server Pulls Last Quarter: The Supply Chain Attack Class Nobody Is Indexing

The Phoenix Security Malware Package Intelligence corpus now indexes 657 malicious package-versions across 59 supply chain campaigns — and AI agent dependencies (MCP servers, agent skills, LLM tool packs) are the fastest-growing category. The agent's blast radius is the union of every tool it has ever pulled.

Engineering

MCP Spotlight: Linear MCP Server — The Fast, Opinionated Project-Management Bridge Built on Linear's GraphQL API

Jun 25, 2026Engineering

MCP Spotlight: Linear MCP Server — The Fast, Opinionated Project-Management Bridge Built on Linear's GraphQL API

Linear's MCP server — built directly on the Linear GraphQL API — gives AI agents the core workflow primitives (find, create, update, comment) for issues, projects, cycles, initiatives, and roadmaps. Fast, opinionated, keyboard-first, with OAuth 2.0 and personal API key support.

Product

Facio's Decision Provenance: How to Explain an AI Agent's Reasoning After the Fact

Jun 25, 2026Product

Facio's Decision Provenance: How to Explain an AI Agent's Reasoning After the Fact

"Why did the agent do that?" is the question every AI operator eventually has to answer. The answer is rarely obvious from looking at the agent's outputs. Production agents take hundreds of tool calls across complex contexts; reconstructing the reasoning requires structured provenance — what the agent saw, what it knew, what it decided, and why. Facio's decision provenance features turn post-hoc explanation from guesswork into query work. Here's how to make AI agent reasoning auditable after the fact.

Security

AI Agents Outnumber Your Employees 45:1: The Non-Human Identity Crisis Nobody Is Governing

Jun 25, 2026Security

AI Agents Outnumber Your Employees 45:1: The Non-Human Identity Crisis Nobody Is Governing

In a typical 2026 enterprise with 5,000 human employees, the identity directory contains 50,000–250,000 non-human identities — and AI agents are the fastest-growing category. 78% of organizations have no formal AI identity policies, even as agents gain admin-level access to customer data, financial tools, and production systems.