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  number: 076
  headline: Agent Harnesses Move From Hype To Evidence
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #076 -- August 26, 2026"
  date: 2026-08-26
  runtime: 11:46
  audio: /media/audio/2026/08/evy-show-076.mp3?v=20260826111135
  summary: "Today’s brief tracks new agentic models, local-first harnesses, toolchain releases, security incidents, and research on durable execution receipts."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 16
  sources[16]{title,publisher,url}:
    IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/25/ibm-releases-granite-4-2-bringing-native-reasoning-and-agentic-rl-to-open-enterprise-models/
    Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite for On-Device Models,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/08/25/liquid-ai-open-sources-pipette-a-reproducible-benchmarking-suite-that-measures-on-device-models-quantization-runtime-and-hardware-together/
    "Dataset: AI Agent Security Failures, 1000 Incidents Classified",Hugging Face,https://huggingface.co/datasets/gemmozero/ai-agent-security-incidents
    "Drive-By Agent Hijacking: One Website Visit, Persistent Model Poisoning",Cyera,https://www.cyera.com/research/nemoclaw-one-website-visit-to-hijack-your-ai-agent
    Fourteen Months Micromanaging AI Coding Agents,Roberto Allende,https://allende.nz/notes/fourteen-months-micromanaging-ai-coding-agents/
    Qwen Code v0.22.2-preview.1 Release,GitHub / QwenLM,https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/tag/v0.22.2-preview.1
    Qwen Code Desktop v0.2.2 Release,GitHub / QwenLM,https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/releases/tag/desktop-v0.2.2
    OpenAI Codex rust-v0.150.0-alpha.12 Release,GitHub / OpenAI,https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.150.0-alpha.12
    Cline SDK v0.0.81 Release,GitHub / Cline,https://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/sdk/sdk/v0.0.81
    GitHub MCP Server 1.11.0 Release,GitHub,https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/releases/tag/v1.11.0
    Agno v3.0.1 Release,GitHub / Agno,https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/releases/tag/v3.0.1
    AutoSaddler: Automatic Harness Optimization with Durable Updates from Agent Execution Traces,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23041
    Recursive Experiential-Working Memory Evolution for Long-Horizon Agent Harnesses,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.24876
    CyberFactory: Scaling Cyber Security Capabilities with Instances from the Wild,Hugging Face Papers,https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23181
    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 new agentic models, local-first harnesses, toolchain releases, security incidents, and research on durable execution receipts.

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