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  number: 064
  headline: Tiny Models And Agent Toolchains Get Their Receipts
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #064 -- August 14, 2026"
  date: 2026-08-14
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  audio: /media/audio/2026/08/evy-show-064.mp3?v=20260814111134
  summary: "Today’s brief tracks tiny tool-calling models, fast coding-agent release trains, and the evidence layer forming around real agent work."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 19
  sources[19]{title,publisher,url}:
    Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B On-Device Vision-Language Model,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/13/liquid-ai-lfm2-5-vl-3b-on-device-vision-language-model/
    Cactus Compute Needle 2 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/13/cactus-compute-needle-2-45m-parameter-tool-calling-model/
    New Models Today — AI & LLM Releases,Price Per Token,https://pricepertoken.com/news/model-releases
    Qwen Code v0.21.12-preview.4 Release,GitHub / QwenLM,https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/tag/v0.21.12-preview.4
    OpenAI Codex rust-v0.148.0-alpha.15 Release,GitHub / OpenAI,https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.148.0-alpha.15
    Cline CLI v3.0.55 Release,GitHub / Cline,https://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/cli-v3.0.55
    Cline SDK v0.0.75 Release,GitHub / Cline,https://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/sdk/sdk/v0.0.75
    CrewAI 1.15.16 Release,GitHub / CrewAI,https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.16
    Gemini CLI v0.56.0 Nightly 20260814 Release,GitHub / Google Gemini,https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/tag/v0.56.0-nightly.20260814.gc0d192452
    OpenSRE Repository,GitHub / Tracer Cloud,https://github.com/Tracer-Cloud/opensre
    How to Evaluate AI SRE Agents for Production,One2N,https://one2n.io/blog/how-to-evaluate-ai-sre-agents-for-production
    Agentrove Self-Hosted AI Coding Workspace Repository,GitHub / Mng-dev-ai,https://github.com/Mng-dev-ai/agentrove
    Agentstow Repository,GitHub / agentstow,https://github.com/agentstow/agentstow
    Agentstow Project Site,Agentstow,https://agentstow.dev/
    AutoDesign: Meta-Harness Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Design,arXiv,http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13560v1
    QuoteBench: How Matched Scores Can Hide Command-Path Failures,arXiv,http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13547v1
    Hugging Face Papers for 2026-08-14,Hugging Face,https://huggingface.co/papers?date=2026-08-14
    Hacker News Algolia AI Agents Same-Day Scout,Hacker News / Algolia,https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=AI%20agents&tags=story
    MarkTechPost Open Source Category,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Today’s brief tracks tiny tool-calling models, fast coding-agent release trains, and the evidence layer forming around real agent work.

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