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  number: 022
  headline: Agent Substrates Become The Product
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #022 -- June 21, 2026"
  date: 2026-06-21
  runtime: 
  audio: /media/audio/2026/06/evy-show-022.mp3?v=20260621111858
  summary: "Today’s brief tracks agent substrates: skill discovery, private control planes, agent networks, harness factories, and verification-shaped research."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 14
  sources[14]{title,publisher,url}:
    "GitHub - Leon-Drq/openagentskill: Open discovery, audit, and recommendation infrastructure for AI agent skills",GitHub,https://github.com/Leon-Drq/openagentskill
    GitHub - thesongzhu/Friday: Private control plane for AI agents,GitHub,https://github.com/thesongzhu/Friday
    "GitHub - pilot-protocol/pilotprotocol: Pilot Protocol, the Internet of Agents",GitHub,https://github.com/pilot-protocol/pilotprotocol
    New Models Today — AI & LLM Releases Last 24 Hours,Price Per Token,https://pricepertoken.com/news/model-releases
    Cursor’s Composer 2.5: third on the Coding Agent Index and lower cost than rivals,Artificial Analysis,https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/cursor-composer-2-5-coding-agent-index
    GitHub - ruvnet/agent-harness-generator: MetaHarness for AI agents,GitHub,https://github.com/ruvnet/agent-harness-generator
    GitHub - zzet/gortex: Local code-intelligence engine for AI agents and IDEs,GitHub,https://github.com/zzet/gortex
    Ask HN: What are some good benchmarks for different agent harnesses?,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614029
    GitHub - KarelTestSpecial/real-agent-setup: Maccha cross-agent brain,GitHub,https://github.com/KarelTestSpecial/real-agent-setup
    GitHub - MeherBhaskar/agent-rigor: Stop AI coding assistants from doom-looping,GitHub,https://github.com/MeherBhaskar/agent-rigor
    GitHub - jingkaihe/maco: Let agents rg a filesystem of MCP tools and run them as code,GitHub,https://github.com/jingkaihe/maco
    N-Version Programming with Coding Agents,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20158
    Beyond Static Endpoints: Tool Programs as an Interface for Flexible Agentic Web Services,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19992
    Connect the Dots: Training LLMs for Long-Lifecycle Agents with Cross-Domain Generalization via Reinforcement Learning,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20002

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  > Today’s brief tracks agent substrates: skill discovery, private control planes, agent networks, harness factories, and verification-shaped research.

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