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• Note This Week in Extensibility: MCP's spec locks down its auth and skills, WebMCP gets conformance tests, WebAssembly components bind to real-world interfaces

  Jul 10, 2026 Week of July 3–10, 2026: MCP's next spec locks down its client-auth and skill-distribution pieces before a July 28 launch, WebMCP gains a cross-vendor conformance suite, the WebAssembly Component...

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• Note Loop Engineering: always be compounding

  Jul 07, 2026 Loop engineering for AI agents should raise the floor on each iteration by creating tools and correcting instructions.

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: MCP trims to a stateless core, extensions weigh softer permission prompts, ChatGPT adds plugin governance

  Jul 03, 2026 Week of June 26 – July 3, 2026: MCP ships beta SDKs for a leaner stateless spec, the WebExtensions group takes up softer permission prompts, and ChatGPT Business adds a plugin control plane for admins.

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• Note This Week in Extensibility: hyperscale sandboxes, extensions get a standards track, and prompt-to-plugin

  Jun 26, 2026 Week of June 19–26, 2026: AWS makes per-user code isolation a managed product, the WebExtensions API gets a chartered W3C Working Group, and Figma turns plugin authoring into a writing task.

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• Note Beliefs hitchhike like genes

  Jun 09, 2026 A new explorer that clusters public thinkers by the genome of their beliefs, inspired by genetic hitchhiking.

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• Note agent-browser-shield is live on Product Hunt

  Jun 05, 2026 agent-browser-shield, a source-available defense layer for AI agents in the browser, is on Product Hunt today.

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• Note agent-browser-shield June 3 update: 14 new rules and the Chrome Web Store listing

  Jun 03, 2026 14 new rules shipped in agent-browser-shield, now installable from the Chrome Web Store, and using it for daily driving.

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• Note Introducing agent-browser-shield (alpha): keeping AI agents safe in the browser

  Jun 01, 2026 Announcing the alpha of agent-browser-shield — a source-available defense layer (also available as an OpenClaw skill) that blocks prompt injection and dark patterns before they reach your agent.

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• Note Letting OpenClaw loose on Boston's open data

  May 30, 2026 At the Boston OpenClaw 2026 hackathon, I let an agent autonomously connect to the city's open-data MCP server, devise its own corruption-signal queries on contract data, and package the workflow...

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• Note Did Google sneak a local LLM model into Chrome?

  May 26, 2026 A response to FUD around Chrome's new Local AI models, plus a demo using PixieBrix + Local AI to filter my LinkedIn feed.

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