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  number: 075
  headline: Agent Work Gets Receipts Before It Gets Scale
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #075 -- August 25, 2026"
  date: 2026-08-25
  runtime: 
  audio: /media/audio/2026/08/evy-show-075.mp3?v=20260825111715
  summary: "Today’s brief tracks MCP security receipts, agent-work benchmarks, release churn in coding tools, and the repo layer around context, skills, and harnesses."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 18
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    Google MCP Toolbox PR #3448: SSRF Guard for Redirects and DNS Rebinding,GitHub / googleapis,https://github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox/pull/3448
    CVE-2026-14540 Record for Google MCP Toolbox SSRF,CVE.org,https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14540
    "HN: I Found an SSRF in Google's Official AI Tooling, and How Google Reacted",Hacker News Algolia,https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/49429926
    NVIDIA: Vera Rubin NVL72 Efficiency for AI Agents,NVIDIA Blog,https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vera-rubin-nvl72-efficiency-ai-agents/
    OpenRouter Model Listings API,OpenRouter,https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
    Cline Desktop v0.0.17 Release,GitHub / cline,https://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/desktop-v0.0.17
    Claude Code v2.1.245 Release,GitHub / anthropics,https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.245
    Qwen Code Nightly v0.22.0 20260825 Release,GitHub / QwenLM,https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/tag/v0.22.0-nightly.20260825.22bb5e8b9f
    OpenAI Codex rust-v0.150.0-alpha.8 Release,GitHub / openai,https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.150.0-alpha.8
    SkillPreflight: Score AI Agent Skills Before Installing Them,GitHub / agent-contracts,https://github.com/agent-contracts/skill-preflight
    Myli: Harness for AI Design Agents,GitHub / EightPotions,https://github.com/EightPotions/Myli
    Cortex: Local Context Retrieval for AI Coding Agents,GitHub / DanielBlomma,https://github.com/DanielBlomma/cortex
    Ablo: Make Your AI App Multiplayer,GitHub / Abloatai,https://github.com/Abloatai/ablo
    Terminal-Bench: Benchmarks for AI Agents in Terminal Environments,Terminal-Bench,https://www.tbench.ai/
    Apodex 1.1: Scaling Agentic Intelligence for Complex Work,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23283
    MobilePA-Bench: Benchmarking Mobile Planner Agents on Complex Real-World Tasks,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23035
    Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23552
    MarkTechPost Open Source Category,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Today’s brief tracks MCP security receipts, agent-work benchmarks, release churn in coding tools, and the repo layer around context, skills, and harnesses.

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