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  purpose:    Evy's Morning AI Brief #066: Agent Boundaries Get Their Receipts
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  number: 066
  headline: Agent Boundaries Get Their Receipts
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #066 -- August 16, 2026"
  date: 2026-08-16
  runtime: 
  audio: /media/audio/2026/08/evy-show-066.mp3?v=20260816110802
  summary: "Today: tool-calling fine-tunes, proof receipts, MCP exfiltration blocks, token budgets, and research on contract-aware agent work."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 20
  sources[20]{title,publisher,url}:
    MarkTechPost: Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs with XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/15/fine-tuning-tool-calling-llms-a-complete-guide-using-xyz-aquila-sft-and-qwen3/
    Hacker News: ProofRun — Local Verification Receipt for AI Coding Agents,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316605
    ProofRun GitHub Repository,GitHub,https://github.com/yebiguo/ProofRun
    Hacker News: Customhouse Deterministic MCP Proxy,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318414
    Customhouse GitHub Repository,GitHub,https://github.com/vineetpant/customhouse
    Cyera: Hidden Attack Surface of Agentic AI Integration Platforms,Cyera,https://www.cyera.com/research/the-hidden-attack-surface-of-agentic-ai-securing-ai-agent-integration-platforms
    Hacker News: Tokencompress MCP Sidecar for Agent Tool Context,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317274
    Tokencompress GitHub Repository,GitHub,https://github.com/dburnett11155-rgb/Tokencompress
    Hacker News: An AI Agent Can Burn 100x the Tokens of a Chat Turn,Hacker News,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318802
    aicharts: Agent Token Consumption Chart,aicharts.grok.me,https://aicharts.grok.me/c/agent-tokens
    Construct: AI Agents Have a Half-Life,Construct,https://construct.computer/blog/agent-task-half-life/
    Graphify-Labs Graphify Repository,GitHub,https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify
    Headroom Repository,GitHub,https://github.com/headroomlabs-ai/headroom
    Chrome DevTools MCP Repository,GitHub,https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp
    CAPRI: Contract-Aware Proof Repair for Isabelle,arXiv,http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13459v1
    "Reconcile Once, Write Anytime: Trust-Tiered Librarian and Multi-Agent Writer",arXiv,http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12984v1
    StateBridge: Hidden-State Alignment for LLM Multi-Agent Systems,arXiv,http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13317v1
    Hugging Face Papers: AutoDesign Meta-Harness Optimization,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.13560
    Hugging Face Papers: PlayWorld Long-Horizon World-Model Benchmark,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.13552
    MarkTechPost Open Source Category,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Today: tool-calling fine-tunes, proof receipts, MCP exfiltration blocks, token budgets, and research on contract-aware agent work.

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