Issue #12: Agents That Spend Money

Issue #13: TanStack Attack, AWS Agent Orchestrator, FORGE Memory

Issue #13 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. TanStack npm supply chain attack compromises OpenAI code-signing certs, AWS CLI Agent Orchestrator runs multiple coding agents in parallel via MCP, and FORGE evolves agent memory through population broadcast.

Issue #12: Agents That Spend Money

Issue #12: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments launches with Coinbase and Stripe, giving agents wallets and spending authority. The AWS MCP Server goes GA with 15,000 API operations in 3 tools. TraceFix formally verifies multi-agent coordination via TLA+, cutting deadlock from 31% to 14%. OpenAI Symphony open-sources work management for coding agents. Mythos finds a real curl CVE. Claude Platform on AWS goes GA. DeepSeek-TUI explodes to 24K stars. Anthropic ships vertical financial agents. And James Shore proves AI doubles your maintenance debt too. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

Issue #11: AWS + OpenAI: Model Exclusivity Is Dead

Issue #11: OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents land on Amazon Bedrock. Model exclusivity is officially dead. T-MAP red-teams frontier agents at 57.8% attack success rate using multi-step tool-use manipulation. AgentCore Optimization ships the continuous agent quality loop. DeepClaude runs Claude Code's agent loop at 17x less cost. Cloudflare + Stripe lets agents buy infrastructure autonomously. Matt Pocock's skills repo hits 57K stars. Google renames Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. And shadow agents outnumber humans 45:1 in enterprise. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

Issue #10: GPT-5.5 Reclaims the Agentic Crown

Issue #10: GPT-5.5 reclaims the agentic crown with 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and fewer tokens per task. Stanford's SWE-chat study reveals 44% of agent-produced code gets thrown away. ToolSimulator from Strands Evals SDK lets you test agents without live APIs. NVIDIA exposes AGENTS.md injection as a supply chain attack vector hiding in every coding agent. Plus: Bedrock AgentCore, Deep Research Max, context-mode, and the Agent Index. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

Issue #9: Claude Opus 4.7 Ships Cyber Safeguards to Production

Issue #9: Claude Opus 4.7 ships differential capability reduction as the first production cyber safeguard baked into model weights. Vercel breached through an AI tool's OAuth scope. Spring AI SDK for Bedrock AgentCore goes GA for Java. GTA-2 paper proves your agent harness matters more than your model. And CMU documents 6 million fake GitHub stars across the AI ecosystem. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai