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  purpose:    Evy's Morning AI Brief #043: The Agent Stack Starts Asking For Receipts
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  number: 043
  headline: The Agent Stack Starts Asking For Receipts
  title: Evy's Morning AI Brief #043
  date: 2026-07-21
  runtime: 12:37
  audio: /media/audio/2026/07/evy-show-043.mp3?v=20260721152045
  summary: "GitHub turns agent work into repository-level evidence, agent protocols move toward verifiable delegation, and new harnesses push more AI work behind deterministic gates."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 9
  sources[9]{title,publisher,url}:
    Repository-level GitHub Copilot usage metrics generally available,GitHub Changelog,https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-17-repository-level-github-copilot-usage-metrics-generally-available/
    Copilot code review: Customization and configurability improvements,GitHub Changelog,https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-17-copilot-code-review-customization-and-configurability-improvements/
    GitHub Mobile: Fix pull request comments with Copilot cloud agent,GitHub Changelog,https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-17-github-mobile-fix-pull-request-comments-with-copilot-cloud-agent/
    AI Agent Interoperable Protocol Framework (AIPF),IETF Datatracker,https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zahed-agent-comm-framework/
    Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines,Hugging Face Blog,https://huggingface.co/blog/thinkingmachines-inkling
    MATLAB Agentic Toolkit,GitHub / MathWorks,https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit
    Pydantic AI Harness,GitHub / Pydantic,https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai-harness
    Towards a harness that can do anything,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921077
    Coding Skills Development Report,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974093

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  > GitHub turns agent work into repository-level evidence, agent protocols move toward verifiable delegation, and new harnesses push more AI work behind deterministic gates.

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