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Week of August 14–21, 2026: Google caps how many extensions one publisher can list in the Chrome Web Store, an essay argues web apps should let users generate their own sandboxed extensions, and...
Highlights from my conversation with David Dean Mauro on Cyber Crime Junkies about contact center fraud, insider risk, AI agents, and locking down shadow AI.
Week of August 7–14, 2026: Microsoft Edge commits to removing Manifest V2, WebMCP origin trials reach Microsoft Edge and Brave, and Cloudflare ships a 1.0 preview of the SDK for running customer...
Running coding agents in parallel is closer to a team of different developers than one developer multitasking, so plan a deliberate converge phase after the diverge phase.
Week of July 31 – August 7, 2026: six agent vendors publish a shared plugin-packaging standard, Mozilla files a neutral position on WebMCP that leaves the browser engines split, and Atlassian...
Week of July 24–31, 2026: MCP ships its 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core and first-class extensions for sandboxed app UIs and async tasks, WebMCP stands up a cross-engine...
Week of July 17–24, 2026: Wasmtime turns on WebAssembly GC and exceptions by default, WebMCP specifies how a user's in-page agent discovers and invokes a site's tools, and the W3C WebExtensions...
Week of July 10–17, 2026: the Chrome Web Store bans prediction-market and AI-guardrail-circumvention extensions and narrows what any extension may collect, Mozilla proposes a browser-mediated...
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...
Loop engineering for AI agents should raise the floor on each iteration by creating tools and correcting instructions.